Not a home, but a benefactor
. The decision to move to Alva having come to fruition, Jan finding a two bedroom rental house at 804 Noble St. , with a small additional structured dwelling on it, the rental agreement included an option to buy. The Noble house a behemoth contrary to their 6000 square foot Anthony home, if one included the 1500 square foot basement. Gary sensing a feeling of entrapment, the small house and residing in an inundating college community, not the laid back rural lake, farming endowed surroundings of Anthony. The moving experience beginning, the depositions of the family’s three cats now in question, Mario and Mitten, brother and sister, complements of Jan’s sister Lynne, and Mittens, a later addition to the family, a struggling for life desolate little kitten Gary found wandering in the alley one morning.
. Sandra desiring her feline companion Mittens, to get a college education and accompany her to Winfield. Robs Cat Mario having fended for itself the past years with Rob no longer residing at home, and was a new enlistee in the Navy. Gary having thought approaching Glenda Holdaway, an associate at the Kiowa Hospital about a home for Mario, leaving the third acquired member, Muffins to venture to Oklahoma with the couple.
. Exudation of the accumulation that filled the house was challenging, Gary’s brother inlaw, Shawn Johnson providing an immediate storage redemption. Shawn having inherited his mother’s vacant home in Kiowa, its rental status having been nil for over a year, offering its presence to deposit the many rooms of furniture, sundry items and the dozens of boxes of accumulated paraphernalia still remaining after furnishing the recently rental in Alva. Shawn’s storage offer being garnished, his mother’s old two bedroom home soon being filled to capacity.
. Gary was thankful for the abundant amount of family help, Bud and Helen Murrow, Lynn and Shawn giving raise to the extracting occasion, asking nothing in return, although Gary did present Shawn with his treasured Satellite Dish and Receiver. The only remaining article in the now vacant Anthony house was the pool table stationed in the ballroom on the third floor. Gary first thought a deposition to leave it as is, just as they had discovered it when buying the house, allowing the new owners an inheriting. An alternative arising, Michael Palmer, the son of Sandy, whom he had worked with at John Deere having heard about it and was interested, offering to give $100 for it, the teenage boy and his friends accomplishing the move. The Alva migration leaving two remaining faction, a once over cleaning endeavor and a final disposition of the Springfield Ave. property. Gary making two trips back to Anthony to abstergent the premises and a consideration to list the residence in the rental market.
. Settled in , Gary yet to instill an interest in Alva, a town seemingly without substance except for the University, finding himself allocated to the confines of what seemed like a closet of a home, Jan still maintaining late hours at Share Medical Center and when returning home, only to journey across town to spend time with her RN friend most nights. It was recognizable, the town having undergone a change from his remembrance of twenty years ago with the band performing at the Elks Club, Moose Lodge and Veldon Woolley’s renown Vel’s NiteLite Club. The era for live entertaining dance bands performing on a regular basis in small communities having passed.
. The town’s primary source for ongoing entertainment was Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Gary having taken notice and was curious to what the University offered. Home life with Jan having become almost nonexistent, over shadowed by others at Share Medical Center, A bleak sense of solitude remaining, but recalling a quote, be patient, good things come to those who wait…
Inquisitive Quest 
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