Robert Edde was born in Spanish Fort, TX, where his father worked as a cowboy for a rancher in the area. In his youth, Robert worked in construction but found that money was in the oil business and set about learning it. Robert was drilling a gas well near Quinton, OK where he met his future wife, Ruby Pearl Kitchens, who was working as a telephone operator at the local phone company.
After a six-month courtship, Robert and Ruby were married in November 1917. Initially, they took up housekeeping near Mounds, OK after a honeymoon in Fort Worth, TX.
Robert moved around quite a bit because drilling oil wells is a nomadic existence and during the depression and afterwards a man took work wherever he could find it. He worked at many varied jobs on the cable-tool drilling rigs, as driller, then pusher. Early in his oil-field career he worked as an independent driller with his own rig and tools. Later he worked for a variety of oil companies driling oil and gas wells over the central and south US. He was old enough that when the rotary bit rigs became the rig of choice he decided to retire from the business. After retirement he settled with his wife, Ruby, in Long Beach, CA where she had moved a few years earlier.
In 1930, while living in Okmulgee, OK, Robert got cellulites of his leg and the condition threatened his life. The local doctor made an 11-inch incision in his leg to drain the pus. While watching the procedure, Ruby fainted. A doctor named TJ Lynch performed the operation.
Ruby told the story about how after they were married she tried to make a pie for Robert to take to work. She made the piecrust out of biscuit dough and after baking it was very tough. Robert took the piece of pie to the rig and nailed it to the oil derrick where it hung there for days before finally falling off.
Since Robert could not smoke at the wells, he took to chewing tobacco, a habit that stayed with him all his life. First he chewed the large, black, twists of tobacco but later moved on to the plug variety.
In 1947, while living in Seminole, OK, Robert had surgery for a perforated ulcer with ether anesthetic. When he told the doctor to go ahead, the doctor replied that he had only performed the operation three times and two of the patients had died. Nevertheless, the surgery was successful.
After retirement, Robert moved to Long Beach, CA to be with Ruby who had moved there a few years earlier to be near her sister, Ruth. In 1976, Robert and Ruby moved to Oklahoma City, OK to be near son Robert Jr. and his wife, Jeanne. A week before his death, Robert was hospitalized with an infection and was getting better when suddenly he took a turn for the worse and died.
Robert and Ruby are buried beside each other in the cemetery in Okmulgee, OK.
After a six-month courtship, Robert and Ruby were married in November 1917. Initially, they took up housekeeping near Mounds, OK after a honeymoon in Fort Worth, TX.
Robert moved around quite a bit because drilling oil wells is a nomadic existence and during the depression and afterwards a man took work wherever he could find it. He worked at many varied jobs on the cable-tool drilling rigs, as driller, then pusher. Early in his oil-field career he worked as an independent driller with his own rig and tools. Later he worked for a variety of oil companies driling oil and gas wells over the central and south US. He was old enough that when the rotary bit rigs became the rig of choice he decided to retire from the business. After retirement he settled with his wife, Ruby, in Long Beach, CA where she had moved a few years earlier.
In 1930, while living in Okmulgee, OK, Robert got cellulites of his leg and the condition threatened his life. The local doctor made an 11-inch incision in his leg to drain the pus. While watching the procedure, Ruby fainted. A doctor named TJ Lynch performed the operation.
Ruby told the story about how after they were married she tried to make a pie for Robert to take to work. She made the piecrust out of biscuit dough and after baking it was very tough. Robert took the piece of pie to the rig and nailed it to the oil derrick where it hung there for days before finally falling off.
Since Robert could not smoke at the wells, he took to chewing tobacco, a habit that stayed with him all his life. First he chewed the large, black, twists of tobacco but later moved on to the plug variety.
In 1947, while living in Seminole, OK, Robert had surgery for a perforated ulcer with ether anesthetic. When he told the doctor to go ahead, the doctor replied that he had only performed the operation three times and two of the patients had died. Nevertheless, the surgery was successful.
After retirement, Robert moved to Long Beach, CA to be with Ruby who had moved there a few years earlier to be near her sister, Ruth. In 1976, Robert and Ruby moved to Oklahoma City, OK to be near son Robert Jr. and his wife, Jeanne. A week before his death, Robert was hospitalized with an infection and was getting better when suddenly he took a turn for the worse and died.
Robert and Ruby are buried beside each other in the cemetery in Okmulgee, OK.
Robert Edde was born in Spanish Fort, TX, where his father worked as a cowboy for a rancher in the area. In his youth, Robert worked in construction but found that money was in the oil business and set about learning it. Robert was drilling a gas well near Quinton, OK where he met his future wife, Ruby Pearl Kitchens, who was working as a telephone operator at the local phone company.
After a six-month courtship, Robert and Ruby were married in November 1917. Initially, they took up housekeeping near Mounds, OK after a honeymoon in Fort Worth, TX.
Robert moved around quite a bit because drilling oil wells is a nomadic existence and during the depression and afterwards a man took work wherever he could find it. He worked at many varied jobs on the cable-tool drilling rigs, as driller, then pusher. Early in his oil-field career he worked as an independent driller with his own rig and tools. Later he worked for a variety of oil companies driling oil and gas wells over the central and south US. He was old enough that when the rotary bit rigs became the rig of choice he decided to retire from the business. After retirement he settled with his wife, Ruby, in Long Beach, CA where she had moved a few years earlier.
In 1930, while living in Okmulgee, OK, Robert got cellulites of his leg and the condition threatened his life. The local doctor made an 11-inch incision in his leg to drain the pus. While watching the procedure, Ruby fainted. A doctor named TJ Lynch performed the operation.
Ruby told the story about how after they were married she tried to make a pie for Robert to take to work. She made the piecrust out of biscuit dough and after baking it was very tough. Robert took the piece of pie to the rig and nailed it to the oil derrick where it hung there for days before finally falling off.
Since Robert could not smoke at the wells, he took to chewing tobacco, a habit that stayed with him all his life. First he chewed the large, black, twists of tobacco but later moved on to the plug variety.
In 1947, while living in Seminole, OK, Robert had surgery for a perforated ulcer with ether anesthetic. When he told the doctor to go ahead, the doctor replied that he had only performed the operation three times and two of the patients had died. Nevertheless, the surgery was successful.
After retirement, Robert moved to Long Beach, CA to be with Ruby who had moved there a few years earlier to be near her sister, Ruth. In 1976, Robert and Ruby moved to Oklahoma City, OK to be near son Robert Jr. and his wife, Jeanne. A week before his death, Robert was hospitalized with an infection and was getting better when suddenly he took a turn for the worse and died.
Robert and Ruby are buried beside each other in the cemetery in Okmulgee, OK.
After a six-month courtship, Robert and Ruby were married in November 1917. Initially, they took up housekeeping near Mounds, OK after a honeymoon in Fort Worth, TX.
Robert moved around quite a bit because drilling oil wells is a nomadic existence and during the depression and afterwards a man took work wherever he could find it. He worked at many varied jobs on the cable-tool drilling rigs, as driller, then pusher. Early in his oil-field career he worked as an independent driller with his own rig and tools. Later he worked for a variety of oil companies driling oil and gas wells over the central and south US. He was old enough that when the rotary bit rigs became the rig of choice he decided to retire from the business. After retirement he settled with his wife, Ruby, in Long Beach, CA where she had moved a few years earlier.
In 1930, while living in Okmulgee, OK, Robert got cellulites of his leg and the condition threatened his life. The local doctor made an 11-inch incision in his leg to drain the pus. While watching the procedure, Ruby fainted. A doctor named TJ Lynch performed the operation.
Ruby told the story about how after they were married she tried to make a pie for Robert to take to work. She made the piecrust out of biscuit dough and after baking it was very tough. Robert took the piece of pie to the rig and nailed it to the oil derrick where it hung there for days before finally falling off.
Since Robert could not smoke at the wells, he took to chewing tobacco, a habit that stayed with him all his life. First he chewed the large, black, twists of tobacco but later moved on to the plug variety.
In 1947, while living in Seminole, OK, Robert had surgery for a perforated ulcer with ether anesthetic. When he told the doctor to go ahead, the doctor replied that he had only performed the operation three times and two of the patients had died. Nevertheless, the surgery was successful.
After retirement, Robert moved to Long Beach, CA to be with Ruby who had moved there a few years earlier to be near her sister, Ruth. In 1976, Robert and Ruby moved to Oklahoma City, OK to be near son Robert Jr. and his wife, Jeanne. A week before his death, Robert was hospitalized with an infection and was getting better when suddenly he took a turn for the worse and died.
Robert and Ruby are buried beside each other in the cemetery in Okmulgee, OK.
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