12910. Rhaelene Alta Conger
Rhaelene Alta CongerHOBBIES: Music and writing
Bennie Larry WimberlyREFERENCE: CFA I, p. 806
OCCUPATION: Lumberman
HOBBIES: Liked sports
12911. Ellen Renee Conger
Elle Renee CongerAKA: Probably called, Renee
PUBLIC_SERVICE: 4-H Leader
HOBBIES: Does oil painting, macrame and embroidery
James Gale LinkOCCUPATION: Machinist
HOBBIES: Outdoorsman
12912. George Wallace Conger
George Wallace CongerOCCUPATION: Field Supervisor
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Methodist
RESIDENCES: 3645 Steelton; Beaumont, TX 77703
Ann SuggsCHURCH_AFFILIATION: Methodist
12914. Delbert Marcom Fowler
Delbert Marcom FowlerRESEARCHER: Worked on genealogy
EDUCATION: B.S. from U.S. Military Academy, 1945; M.S. Texas A&M, 1954; M.S. International Affairs George Washington University, 1965
MILITARY: Retired from the U.S. Army after 27 years with the rank of Colonel
OCCUPATION: Regional Administrator, Federal Energy Administration 1973-1977; Consulting Engineer
RESIDENCES: 5708 Willow Lane; Dallas, TX 75230
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Presbyterian
Betty Louise ReicheyAKA: Betty Alouise Reichey, CFA II, p. 311; Betty Louise Reichey, CFA II, p.
312.PUBLIC_SERVICE: Served in the Red Cross with the U.S. Army in Austria 1945-1948
EDUCATION: B.S. Trenton State Teachers College, NJ
CHURCH_AFFILIATION: Presbyterian
AKA: Bambi
16996. Francine Floy Fowler
Francine Floy FowlerBIRTH: Birth listed as 22 Oct 1950 in CFA II, p. 311.
12919. Billy Luther Conger
Billy Luther CongerOCCUPATION: Insurance adjuster.
RESIDENCES: 12508 Shorecrest; Balch Springs, TX 75180
Theresa McMenamyOCCUPATION: Day care teacher
12921. Vernon Howard Conger
Vernon Howard CongerOCCUPATION: Machinist
HOBBIES: Collecting antiques and old guns
RESIDENCES: 311 E. 8th; Coffeyville, KS 67337
Shirley Maxine WilsonHOBBIES: Collecting antiques, dolls and houseplants
17000. Brian Scott Conger
Brian Scott CongerOCCUPATION: Forklift operator
HOBBIES: Collected baseball cards, fishing
Katherine Anne EighmyOCCUPATION: Worked for a graphic arts journal
Elden Lee SmithAKA: Elden, CFA II, p. 696 and p. 725; Eldon elsewhere. Elden L. Smith (CFA I, p. 789)
OCCUPATION: Machinist
17004. Vernon Le Roy Smith
Vernon LeRoy SmithBIRTH-DEATH: Stillborn
12924. Clarence Eugene Conger
Clarence Eugene CongerMILITARY: Career U.S. Army
Inn Chong PakNAME-CONFLICT: Inn Chong (Misuk) Pak, CFA II, p. 68
Hubert Linwood RaburnMILITARY: U.S. Air Force, probably a career man
12931. Martha Ann Conger
Martha Ann CongerDIVORCE: The 1st marriage of Martha Ann Conger ended in divorce, Abt. 1965.
RESIDENCES: As of 1997, Fresno, CA
17012. Richard Hudler
Richard HudlerADOPTION: Adopted by his mother's second husband, a Mr. Hudler, after 1965.
17013. Rex Hudler
Rex HudlerADOPTION: Adopted by his mother's second husband, a Mr. Hudler, after 1965.
17014. Vincent Hudler
Vincent HudlerADOPTION: Adopted by his mother's second husband, a Mr. Hudler, after 1965.
Unknown HudlerSPOUSE-DIVORCE: Mr. Hudler was the 2nd spouse of Martha Ann Conger. The marriage probably ended in divorce, Abt. 1980.
Dan MuellerSPOUSE: Dan Mueller was the 3rd husband of Martha Ann Conger.
12932. Russell Paul Conger
Russell Paul CongerEDUCATION: 1966 graduate of Belle Chasse High School, Belle Chasse, LA. He was the class Valedictorian. 1970 graduate of LSU with a B.S. in Business Administration.
OCCUPATION: During the summer months between school terms he worked as a cook's attendant for the Boatel Offshore Catering Company which provided offshore catering to the oilfields in south Louisiana.
MILITARY: Drafted into the U.S. Army in 1970 and served until 1972 when he was honorably discharged. He was married in 1971 while in the military. He saw no combat during the Vietnam War. He was last assigned to the 5th Army as a Specialist 4th at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX.
OCCUPATION: After his military service he worked as the Personnel Manager for Boatel Offshore Catering, in Belle Chasse, LA. His next job was as Personnel Manager for the Jefferson Bank and Trust Company. In 1984 he became the Chief Executive Officer of a new bank, Peoples Bank of Amite, Louisiana. He built this bank into one of the most successfull small town banks in Louisiana.
DIVORCE: The marriage of Russell Paul Conger, Sr. and Sandra Elaine Rushing ended in divorce at Amite, LA in 1994.
RESIDENCES: Covington, LA 70433
RESIDENCES: As of 1997, Amite, LA with his daughter, Courtney Caroline Conger.
Sandra Elaine RushingEDUCATION: Attended L.S.U.
OCCUPATION: Florist
17015. Russell Paul Conger
Russell Paul Conger, Jr.OCCUPATION: Worked in the dairy industry
17016. Andrew Rushing Conger
Andrew Rushing CongerEDUCATION: About 1997 he was attending LSU.
12933. Robert Mark Conger
Robert Mark CongerBIRTH: 25 Feb 1959 at the Oschner Hospital in Metairie, LA, Dr. Snyder attending.
AKA: Probably called, Mark.
MARRIAGE: 30 Dec 1988 at the St. John Evangelist Catholic Church in Prairieville, LA. Best Man was Donnie E. LaComber and the Maid of Honor was Julie Amos.
RESEARCHER: Robert Mark Conger was interested in genealogy. He created a website with information about the families he was researching.
RESIDENCES: As of Nov 1998, 38016 Therese Court West; Prairieville, LA 70769.
BIOGRAPHY:
Robert Mark Conger graduated in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, December 21, 1982. from Louisiana State University with a Bachelor's of Science in Geology. In December 20, 1996. he graduated from LSU with a Master of Science in Environmental Sciences.In 1996 he resided in Prairieville, Louisiana at 38016 Therese Ct. W.
Robert Mark Conger was reared in Belle Chasse, Louisiana from the age of 5 until adulthood. The son of Roger Fowler Conger and Martha Jean Nabors, he grew up enjoying all the childhood pleasures of being an American including fishing, hunting, baseball, football, and basketball. His father taught Robert and his younger brother, Steven Luke Conger, to shoot at age 6, using a 22 caliber bolt action. They fired at bottles and cans at a short range along the Mississippi River Bank behind the family home in Belle Chasse. Both of them also learned their fishing skills in the Mississippi River. They spent many hours catfishing on the banks and swimming in the river. They were very mischievous boys as well, building tree houses and club houses from drift wood they collected with the other neighborhood children. Mark and his brother Steve were inseparable during their days of youth. They have many memories of the fun they had growing up as brothers.
Mark's older brother, Russell Paul Conger, is 11 years older than Mark. Since Mark's father commonly worked offshore in the oilfield 7 days on, and 7 days at home, Russell was a very close brother in the absence of his father. This is a closeness that is still there today.
He started school at Belle Chasse High School, a K-12, in 1965, and due to desegregation ordered by Federal Courts, his parents placed Mark and his younger brother in a Baptist Private School for a year. In third grade, he attended River Oaks Academy through 5th grade. In 1969, his parents felt is was now safe for Mark and his brother to return to Belle Chasse High School, which was fully integrated.
His first job was at age 12, when he worked for Mr. Sonny Honea picking tomatoes on a citrus farm for $1.50/hour. He later went to work for Mr. Sal Ranatza and worked year round after school picking tomatoes, oranges, plowing, fertilizing, and grafting nursery trees for $1.75/hour.
He was an above average student in elementary school and High School graduating with an above B average from Belle Chasse High School in 1977. He developed an interest in sciences at a young age and was often chastised by teachers for being so quick with the right answer that the rest of the class never had a chance to think. He won the 5th Grade Science Fair with a project on oil exploration and production. In the 6th Grade Science fair he placed with a project on building a crystal diode radio from scratch. He won the high school biology student award for the highest average grade, 99 of 100 in 1975. He represented the High School in 1976 and 1977 at the District Rally in Chemistry and Physics.
Mark began his musical interests when he learned to play the trombone in the 7th grade and continued through high school and college. He was a member of the Belle Chasse High School Band and later the L.S.U. Golden Band from Tigerland. He was awarded the Outstanding High School Bandsman Award in 1977 and was the Band Captain at Belle Chasse. He performed in Concert Bands at Belle Chasse that attained repeated Sweepstake Superior Ratings at both District and State Music Festivals in 1974. He also performed in the High School Marching Band at various March Contests including Mardi Gras Parade Competitions, accounting for many many trophies.
In LSU's Band, he performed at all the LSU football games between 1977 and 1979 without a single absence, including the 1978 Liberty Bowl and the 1979 Tangerine Bowl. In 1978, Mark was invited to pledge the honorary band fraternity, Kappa Kappa Psi, which he did and was inducted. He later was elected treasurer of the fraternity and served honorably in that capacity. It was as a member of Kappa Kappa Psi that Mark became best friends with Donnie LaCombe. He also made life-long friends of Joe Killian and Robert Berg. In 1980, Mark retired from his music interests to concentrate his efforts on the completion of his Bachelor of Science Degree in Geology at LSU.
Mark earned his college tuition and living expense money working summers as an oilfield roustabout and later a rig floor roughneck, following the earlier path taken as a career by his father. With the help of his father, Mark applied for a summer job with Fluor Drilling Company and worked on the "jack-up" movable drilling platform, Mr. Si, each summer though 1981. In 1982, he briefly worked on the Rowan Drilling Company, "Houston" in the Galveston, Texas shipyard for one month between semesters in order to attend Summer School. As a roustabout, his hard work and desire to learn more were soon recognized and he was given a chance to work as a roughneck. Working "lead tong" as a start, Mark soon learned to work "back-up tong", pitching the spinning chain as many a good oilfield roughneck before him. He also tailed pipe, relieved the derrick man at supper time and spend time working the shale shaker and mixing mud. As a roughneck, Mark got a good appreciation for how his father had climbed the ranks in the oilfield and just how valuable hard work and the common man are to our society.
During those years, 1977-1982, the American oil industry was in a boom. Crude oil prices were at record highs and job opportunities were unlimited. This and his earned interest in the drilling business through his summer employment, and due to the common interest with his father, were the reasons that Mark initially chose the field of Geology in which to pursue an education. During the Fall Semester of 1981, Mark decided to take a part-time campus job working for the Louisiana Geological Survey, in order to make himself a stronger employment candidate upon graduation, since the oilfield boom was beginning to show signs of bust.
At the LGS, Mark worked for Brad Hanson and Syed Haque, Research Geologists in the Water Resources Section of the Geological Survey. Mark was primarily assigned to "slip" or correlate electric log measurements from deep oil and gas exploration wells and construct geologic cross-sections and maps of subsurface injection zones being used for hazardous waste disposal. Mark was a good candidate for the job since his oilfield experience provided critical knowledge about well exploration drilling not often possessed in academia and government. In this job Mark gained his first experience in groundwater hydrology. He assisted the LGS Geologists in preparing both potentiometric maps of the Chicot Aquifer in Lake Charles and geochemistry plots of water samples from the aquifer. Although at this time, Mark had not lost sight of his interest in the oilfield, this learning would later prove to have been some of the most valuable experience in his early career.
In December 1982, Mark graduated in Geology with a B.S. Degree and sought employment in the Oil Industry. Unfortunately, all opportunities were gone as the American Oilfield was beginning a decline that would continue into the mid 1990's. However, much to his delight, the LGS was able to offer him an unclassified position as a "Utility Laborer" for a mere $525/month. Mark gratefully accepted the job as a chance to gain more experience while continuing to seek a job in Geology.
Mark's abilities in Geology began to shine within a short time. He worked "moonlight" hours developing oilfield prospects with a co-worker, Blair Spencer. Blair introduced Mark to his father, Fritz Spencer,the assistant commissioner of the Office of Conservation for the State of Louisiana. After taking the State Civil Service Exam and scoring 99 of 100, the highest score to date on that exam, Mark was hired at the Office of Conservation to regulate underground injection practices for both oilfield and hazardous wastes in Louisiana. This job was his first real job in the environmental field and he finally was paid as a professional, a handsome salary of $27,000/year, above average for 1983.
Mark continued in his job at the Office of Conservation working all across Louisiana, continuing to build knowledge and experience in the groundwater and environmental fields. From 1983 to 1986, Mark worked in every one of the 64 parishes of Louisiana and wrote more than 1/2 dozen professional open file reports on subsurface geology and groundwater, including two official published scientific papers.
As were those times, Mark's job was a "soft" money job and afforded little long-term security. The work of State employees was not well appreciated and the few career advancements that did occur were provided often to favorite sons of Louisiana politicians. During this time, the environmental consulting field was booming as the country began complying with the volumes of new environmental regulations that were the product of a liberal democratically controlled Congress. Before leaving the Office of Conservation, he reviewed the repermit of over 70 hazardous waste injection wells in Louisiana and once he completed this task, he felt it was time to make a career advancement in the private sector.
In 1986, Mark joined Environmental Management, Inc. as a consultant for an excellent salary of $32,000/year plus a 5% bonus on gross business developed. This was a totally new field for Mark and learning the business was his first order. EMI was a family owned business of Dr. Robert Flournoy and as such had the many problems associated with small size and low resources.
It was about this time that Mark began pursuit of a life-long interest in flying. He started in 1987 taking flying lessons from Eddie Duffard in Eddie's Piper Cherokee. On February 14, 1987 after 7 hours in the air with Eddie, Mark soloed at Ryan Field in Baton Rouge. He earned his pilot's license in August the same year and continued flying light planes as a hobby until after he was married in late 1988. Mark gave up flying due to his own concern not to take any risks with his life after he was married. He has over 120 hours as pilot in command and was rated to fly four different makes of single engine land airplanes.
In 1987, after a little over one year at EMI, Mark joined Woodward-Clyde Consultants, a nationally recognized consulting firm in Baton Rouge. At WCC, Mark perfected his groundwater skills and developed new ones in project management and environmental remediation. He developed a keen interest in effective remediation systems while at Woodward-Clyde which would later prove to be valuable in his career. It was about this time that Mark began to settle down in his personal life and met the love of his life, Laurina Amos of Prairieville. They were married in December 1988 and moved into a new home at 5522 Holly Springs Drive in Shenandoah Estates in Baton Rouge. Mark built the home himself with the aid of his best friend, Mr. Donnie LaCombe. In 1989, Mark joined Geraghty & Miller, Inc. another nationally recognized consulting firm as the Baton Rouge Office's Hydrocarbon Services Division Manager. But as the oilfield boom busted in 1982, the general deflation of environmental consulting began in the late 1989 to 1990 era as the first predictions of flat growth for the consulting industry were made.
In June of 1990, Mark joined BASF Corporation in Geismar, Louisiana, just south of Baton Rouge as an Environmental Affairs Engineer. Mark was hired by Mr. Harry Stafford and George Smith to solve one of the most controversial remediation problems in Louisiana, the remediation of a former herbicide plant known as the basagran plant. Mark was instrumental in developing a plan to remediate the site that was agreeable to both the State of Louisiana and BASF. The environmentalists were demanding the excavation of the property, which had a cost of tens of millions, but Mark's ingenious plan to install the first horizontal well pumping systems in the State, if successful would only cost a little over three million. The plan was a success and Mark's reputation as an innovative scientist in Louisiana grew by leaps and bounds.
Since that first project Mark developed the first successful aquifer recharge system for speeding up environmental clean-up and was a pioneer in Louisiana of researching and implementing the largest phytoremediation project in Louisiana at BASF. In 1994, Dr. Ralph Portier of LSU convinced Mark to return to LSU and seek a Master of Science Degree in Environmental Sciences. He was awarded this degree in December 1996, and continues his studies today toward a PhD he hopes to obtain in Spring 2000. Mark has authored over a dozen professionally published research articles and speaks frequently at seminars, symposia, and conferences on environmental remediation.
Mark and Laurina began their family in 1990 with Matthew Wayne Conger, followed in 1991 by Meredith Claire Conger and finally in 1995 Maxwell Benton Conger. They moved from Baton Rouge in 1996 to Prairieville to escape growing urbanization and poor schools. They now live in Ascension Parish where they are active Catholics and enjoy their children.
Mark enjoys big game hunting and fishing and has bagged several trophy white tail deer, wild boar, and a pair of Corsican Rams. The later of these he shot from over 300 yards and killed two rams with one single shot. He owns a 300 Winchester Magnum, Model 70 Rifle, a 30-30 caliber Winchester Model 94, and a Black Hawk, 54 Caliber muzzle loader which he hunts with all. He loves fishing both saltwater and freshwater. His favorite fishing is speckled trout trips in the Louisiana Barrier Islands.
Mark relaxes with woodworking and enjoys reading Civil War History as well as Family Genealogy. He is active in his children's education and extra curricular activities. He attends Cub Scouts with Matthew and looks forward to Meredith's dance recital each May.
Mark's greatest treasure and his biggest inspiration is his beautiful wife Laurina. Her beautiful singing and loving personality are his greatest fondness. She is certainly Mark's greatest collaborator on all he does and he values her above all else.
(Written by Robert Mark Conger)