Published: August 08, 2006 11:02 am         

Pollocks to celebrate 50th anniversary

Tom and Alice Pollock will celebrate 50 years of marriage on July 28, 2006. They were married in El Reno in 1956. They have been sweethearts from their youth. Alice was 16 years and 4 days old when she married Tom who was 19.

Their introduction was anything but romantic. Alice’s sister Betty had wanted to introduce them for some time. This particular day Alice had been teasing her sister Dorothy, who had finally had enough, and had wrestled Alice to the floor and was sitting on her. At this moment, Betty brought Tom in to introduce him to Alice. Alice remembers looking up, up a long pair of legs to a handsome face, and then to the look of utter disdain from Betty.

Theirs is a story of a very happy life together. At the time they were married, neither were Christians. Alice came to know Christ as her Savior when she was 19 and a couple of years later Tom also cam to faith in Him. That is when their life together really began to be great because since that time Christ has always been the center of their married life and a common goal.

Their children were born before Alice was 21 and they always had so much fun. They enjoyed playing together and with the kids. They moved to Tuttle in 1965 because they wanted the same kind of childhood environment for their children that they had, wide open spaces with lots of room to run. That’s about the only thing the house on the hill had going for it. It had been a rent house and wasn’t in very good shape, inside or out. All five family members worked hard and God blessed. There wasn’t a happier hill in the country.

There was never much money for entertainment, so the family made their own, catching frogs and having races with them and then pitching june bugs to the frogs and watch them snatch them up with their tongues. Then there were the barefoot races around the house after the first snow of the season. Everyone would roll up their jeans, take off their shoes, and race around the house. The first ones back (usually the guys) would lock the others out of the house.

The family thanks God and gives Him the glory for bringing them to Tuttle. Tom is a retired ferrier but occasionally shoes horses for friends. He enjoys hunting deer and turkey. Alice retired from Wilsons Food in 1992 after 26 and 1/2 years. She enjoys quilting and cooking. They enjoy yearly fishing trips to Missouri with family and friends and traveling to all different places.

Tom and Alice have three children and their spouses, Pam and John Shroyer, Elaine and David Crowe, and Rocky and Christy Pollock along with grandchildren Mandi and Chris Rivers, Travis and Leslie Shroyer, Justin and Tiffany Crowe, Dalton Pollock, Tayler Pollock, and Aaron Crowe Boeglin. They have five great-grandchildren, Aubrey Crowe, Kolbie Crowe, Kaylee Shroyer, Averee Shroyer and Joey Boeglin.

A party celebrating their golden anniversary will be held from 2 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 6 at Heritage Family Baptist Church, 600 North Mustang Road. Friends and family are invited to attend; the couple requests no gifts.