TEDDY PIERCE 1959 - 1986 PASSENGER SERVICE AGENT, STATION AGENT, ASST. STATION MANAGER, JAMTO/SATO AGENT DUC LAW FSI TIK Jeff Hutchinson came thru yesterday and spent the night with us. He mentioned that Teddy Pierce passed away sometime earlier this year. He'd gotten the news from Albert McKenzie (ex-FAL agent now working for Travel Agency out at Ft. Sill.) Teddy was a DUC agent for CN that went to LAW as Asst Mgr. He was struck by lightning on the ramp while dispatching a flight in a thunderstorm. He would have died that day except for the quick thinking of Agent Jim Stafford who administered CPR immediately and the Capt. (I think it might have been Sam Scott but I'm not sure) brought his oxygen bottle down and they got him to breathing while the first officer radioed the tower and told them what happened and to get an ambulance. Anyway, there is a good story in all of that... but not right now. Teddy went out to Ft Sill (Jamto) until it was taken over by a Travel Agency and then went up to Tinker AFB (SATO) and commuted from Duncan (with Jack McClain) until he retired. I told Jeff to try to get his Obit from the Duncan Banner and we will try to get it to you for posting as soon as we can. -Ray Hall (10-24-01) Gale Moss sent a copy of the obituary which is posted. -Jake Lamkins (11-1-01) I was pleasently surprised while surfing the web to find "The old Frontier Airlines". I was a proud Frontier employee for 2 years, 1984-1986, at Tinker Air Force Base in the SATO office with other Frontier employees, Ken Boyd -Mgr., Jack McLain, Don Warkentin, James Keys, Janet Branscum and Ted Pierce and I enjoyed my time there and was saddened at the loss. I would like my name added to the list of Frontier Airlines employees on this site. Thank you, -Carol Bonicelli, Employee number 18878 (8/19/04) There is an article mentioning Teddy in the Dec 1962 CN Skywriter. -Jake Lamkins (7/13/06) TEDDY PIERCE Station agent seniority date of 10/28/59, based in DUC, on the 1/1/62 CN/ALEA seniority list. T PIERCE Emp# 07074, retained station agent seniority of 10 yrs, 11 mos, 29 days on the 1/1/86 FL/ALEA seniority list. -Jake Lamkins (2/28/09) TEDDY J PIERCE Born 14 Dec 1930 Died 14 Jul 2001 Age 70 At 73533 (Duncan, Stephens, OK) SSN issued in OK -SSDI (2/28/09) FL Club Updated memorial webpage TEDDY PIERCE 1959 - 1986 PASSENGER SERVICE AGENT, STATION AGENT, ASST. STATION MANAGER, JAMTO/SATO AGENT DUC LAW FSI TIK http://fal-1. tripod.com/ Teddy_Pierce. html 9 items added to Teddy's webpage. Post your remembrances. -Jake Lamkins (2/28/09) I am a native of Altus, OK (60 miles west of LAW), graduated from Oklahoma State (SWO) in 1967. During the summers of '65 and '66, I flew for the fixed base operation-Southern Aviation-in LAW, and flew numerous charters to OKC and DAL for CN. I did not see it happen, but I was only a few yards away when lightning struck Ted (can not remember his last name) just after lunch one hot summer day. I helped load him in the ambulance. -John Duncan, MD-80 Captain, FAL 1973-1986 (2/13/16) The agent struck by lightning was Teddy Pierce who died in 2001: http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Teddy_Pierce.html He ended up at OKC SATO. -Jake Lamkins (2/14/16) FLacebook Richard Rohrmann Started out in Lawton with the DC-3s. Marvin Conn was the station manager. Teddy Pierce was struck by lightning standing in front of one of these doing startup. It hit his ballpoint pens in his pocket down to his belt buckle and out the heels of his shoes. It was a freak of nature because of that tall light standing right there at the gate as well as the aircraft itself which was much taller than Teddy. Teddy survived but he carried burn marks on the heels of the feet. He told me he threw sparks between his toes and the tap in the bathtub when he took a bath. They sent them up to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota because it was such an unusual event and they wanted to poke around on him. He became a little spastic with his legs and kick me in the ass one time when I was standing at the ticket counter at the Jamto office at Fort Sill. He was a great guy and he had a lovely wife. I believe her name was Joanne Those were the days. (11/16/20) Roger Greenlee Before Dave Allison moved to Dallas he showed me where a chip of cement was missing on the ramp and told me about Ted getting hit by lightening. I was talking to Ted about working at JAMTO and he told me about getting hit by lightening it hit his pen, it shredded his yellow rain jacket and pants. That lightening traveled down the outside - the amount that went through him came out a nail in the heel of his shoe and that chipped the cement ramp. (11/18/20)