Lonnie Massey

I’m the middle boy of Lenora and Wayne’s bunch. We grew up on the High Plains in Plainview, Texas. After I graduated from PHS, I started my long college career, where I managed to squeeze four years into six. I taught school for a total of sixteen years, and the last nine years I’ve been the Network Admin and now Technology Coordinator for Everman ISD just south of Fort Worth.

Twenty years ago, I married Robin, a Fort Worth girl who was teaching fifth grade at the school where I was teaching music. She’s back teaching reading in the same school, and now we have three kids:

Laura is seventeen and a senior at Arlington Heights High School. She’s on the varsity tennis team and trying to decide where she wants to go to college. She enjoyed her summer working as a junior counselor at Camp Carter here in Fort Worth.

Daniel is fourteen and a freshman at Arlington Heights. He is also on the tennis team, and enjoys Frisbee and playing computer games.

Katie is also fourteen and a freshman at Heights. She is enjoying tennis, too, and loves to draw and chat with her friends on the computer.

Our two cats, Buddy and Gracie, tolerate us most of the time.

I am proud to be a part of this family. Mama and Papa’s legacy will live for a long time. Maybe this blog will help carry it forward.

Hi Family,

Since I'm lazy and have a limited amount of time, I've copied a portion of my bio to add to this blog. I'm the daughter of Ermon and Inez, grand daughter of Mama and Papa (R.L. Tisdale). I was born in Borger, Texas, and grew up in Amarillo. Hope the following gives you a sense of who I am w/out boring you to tears!
"Both sets of her grandparents were hard-working cotton farmers with very large families living in the Texas Panhandle during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. Molded by a strong work ethic and the desire to do her best, at age 12 she got her first job -- washing dishes in a café on Route 66. A good student, she graduated from Palo Duro High a year early and attended WTSU one semester. She got bored fast, so she quit college and took a job at the Amarillo Globe News where she worked until she married and moved to Nashville, Tennessee. Having grown up in the Methodist Church, it was natural to go to work for The United Methodist Publishing House when she arrived in Nashville. She later moved to United Methodist Communications where she worked for nearly 20 years. Starting as a production secretary, she consistently took on increasing responsibilities in the areas of audiovisual production and marketing and moved steadily up the ladder. As Director of Marketing for the Public Media Division (headquartered in New York City), she designed and implemented marketing strategies, supervised print and audiovisual production, controlled departmental budgets, and supervised staff. She designed the strategy that resulted in the second most affiliate placements ever for an NBC religious program. Only Billy Graham’s Crusade in Russia had a larger audience. While at UMCOM she produced hundreds of media projects—films, videos, television spots, filmstrips and sound recordings. Other achievements at UMCOM: International award-winning film producer. (Two CINE Golden Eagles); Adjunct Faculty Member to Vanderbilt Divinity School/Supervised graduate student interns in Religious Communications; Awarded Nashville Executive Woman of the Year, 1977.Wanting to experience life in other parts of the world she decided to free-lance. That decision took her to Australia to work, and on to Russia as a citizen diplomat. Over the years, she developed a keen awareness of many of the problems facing the planet—both economically and environmentally. She participated in the planning for the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro. In 2006 she and her husband, Jamie, moved to Amarillo to care for her elderly mother." They currently live in a "little house on the prairie"--which is a part of The Frying Pan Ranch. I am now working to help build Mariposa Ecovillage, an economically and ecologically sustainable community on the outskirts of Amarillo. If you are ever in the neighborhood, give us a call, we'd love to have you stop by. 806.426.3002