Robert Thomas

Oscoda High School

Class of 1963

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First Name	Robert
Last Name	Thomas
Graduation Year	Class of 1963
Gender	Male
City	N/A
State/Province	FL
Country	United States
Occupation	Insurance
Married	Yes
Favorite School Memory	Being part of the 'Midnight Raiders' (Ted, Paul, Howard, me and a few others).
About Me	After a short tiime in college, I went back to Oscoda and learned how to weld. Worked at a small factory there in AuSable and became friends with Warren Stevenâ€™s who also worked there. Warren and I then took off to Flint. I got a job at Buick, all the time thinking I was going to save money for college. I hadnâ€™t been there long when I was drafted into the Army. I spent the next two years in El Paso, TX at Ft. Bliss. While attending a local church there, I met my wife Linda. We were married shortly after I was discharged and settled in Flint where I went back to Buick. I used my GI Bill to learn to fly and became a Flight Instructor for the Flint Police Flying Club. My goal was to eventually get into the airlines. However, the war ended and the airlines were swamped with highly qualified pilots. I didnâ€™t stand a chance. It was then I started learning insurance. I eventually left Buick and became an insurance agent. Then, in 1975, I sold my agency and went to work for an insurance company in Salem, NJ. I eventually became a Vice President in the company and worked there 13 years. After that, I took a job as Vice President with a company in Jacksonville, FL. After 10 years there they sold out and I found myself briefly in Elba, AL. Then I got the opportunity to go with a company in Harrisonburg, VA. We were there five years, when my former boss in Jacksonville asked me to come back to Florida and join a new company that he had formed. So, weâ€™ve been back in Jacksonville (w...(read more)