JIM HALEY
1957 - 1978
STATION AGENT, RESERVATION AGENT
DAL GSW LAW DEN


I started to work with CN as as secretary to Jim Shores and Tom Jones at our general office at Amon Carter field. 
I left there after three months and moved into reservations. 
The reason for this was that I could take shorthand with very little speed 
and I found out that Jim took shorthand at 220 words a minute and he would sit on my desk to dictate at that speed to me. 
When I went to reservations I worked with Bonnie Bias, Jim Haley (now deceased), 
Mildred Silmon, until our merger in 1968 then I moved to Denver res. 
Bonnie could probably remember more names. 
We had a track for the res card reservations to go down and a board on the wall where we would post when a flight was filling up. 
My, what a change from todays modern day technolgy. 
But we sure had fun. I will e-mail you..
-Shirley Shackelford
(8/14/99)

As for Jim Haley, sometime after we closed the Dallas Res Office in late 1960s and went to the St. Louis office, 
then closed it and went to the Kansas City office, Jim died of a heart attack or something suddenly. 
A group of us from Kansas City Res flew to DFW area for his funeral. Jim traveled a lot, was single, was full of life. 
It was sudden. He was a young man.
-Linda Pitts Cherry
(12/3/04)

Did Jim transfer to both STL and MCI when the res offices moved?
Was he based in MCI when he died?
-Jake Lamkins
(12/4/04)

I just went back to some writing I was doing in 1991 about my life history, to refresh my memory. And this is what I found:
During 1978, I believe it was, I wrote that a former co-worker was found dead in his apartment in Dallas, 
and that a group of us flew down from Denver together to go to his funeral. 
It was Jim Haley. It had quite an impact on me because he was so young. I don't recall what he died of.
When the Dallas Res office closed in late 1969 (I was in charge of physically closing it down), 
I don't recall if Jim transferred to St. Louis with us or not. 
Some of the Dallas folks transferred there but would go home to Texas on their days off. 
Eventually these folks quit, I think, because flying back and forth was too hard.
Jim had good seniority so I'm not sure what he did after Dallas. 
Somehow I had it in my mind that he went to St. Louis and then Kansas City with us, but maybe I was mistaken.
He would have been a member of ALEA. He traveled a lot with his Frontier/Central friends. 
I wonder if Shirley Shackleford would remember. She went to St. Louis and Kansas City.
-Linda Pitts Cherry
(12/4/04)

Hi Shirley.
I've been emailing Linda Pitts Cherry and we were trying to pin down when Jim Haley died.
She suggested you might recall.
Do you have any info on him?
Hope all's well with you.
-Jake Lamkins
(12/4/04)
 
He died around 1978 or 1979.  I remember because I was transferred from reservations to the airport in Denver in 1978.  
I was on my way to the airport to work when Mildred Silman (Jackson)formally CN in FSM, went by his apt and found him dead.  
She called me to come by his apt in Aurora and when I called in to work to ask for time off for the day the supervisor made me come to work.  
-Shirley Shackelford
(12/5/04)

Hi Shirley,
Linda was thinking Jim was found in DFW but you say he was in DEN.
She remembers going to DFW for the funeral.
Did he go to STLRR when GSWRR closed, then MCIRR then DENRR?
I'm right that Dallas res was actually at the CN building at GSW, aren't I?
I haven't been able to pin down when he died - there are too many entries in the social security death index.
About how old was he when he died?
-Jake Lamkins
(12/4/04)
  
I started with TTA at Love Field in 1960.  
In 1962 I started with CN as Jim Shores and Tom Lambs secretary at GSW.  
After about 3 months I transferred to Res at GSW and Jim Haley was working in res then.  
When we closed GSW Res we went over to Dallas on Turtle Creek and when that closed we all went to Overland Park Kansas.  
Our res office was in the old weight watchers building.  
When they closed that we went to downtown STL and worked there until it closed.  
Then on to Denver Res.  Jim, Mildred Silmon, Cheryl Cook, Gloria Bowers, went too.  
When Jim died he had a apt in Aurora.  He had diabeties and had a heart attack.  He was alone when he died.  
His wife lived in Lawton, where he commuted to.  He was buried in Ft Worth where the funeral was.  
I am almost sure that was 1978, 1979 because I went to Jackson Hole and on to Spokane in 1980 and 1981.  
-Shirley Shackelford
(12/6/04)

This must be the right SSDI entry since Jim's widow was at Lawton:
JAMES HALEY  
Born 13 Jul 1930 
Died Aug 1978 
Location not specified
Last benefit to 73501 (Lawton, Comanche county, OK) 
SSN issued in Texas
-SSDI
(12/12/04)

I haven't been online in a while and was just checking in this evening and seen the obit for Jim Haley. 
When the DAL res office closed they opened a res office at the LAW  station with about six res agents.. 
Jim... Mildred...and Ginger are the the only names that comes to mind right now. 
It seems like it was mostly to handle the Ft. Sill SATO business. 
When the LAW Res Office closed I think Jim became a LAW Station Agent and worked the Ticket Counter for a while.  
Then because he wouldn't get his weather license he was forced to transfer but I don't remember where.  
His wife I believe was a nurse and stayed in  LAW and he commuted.
-Ray Hall
(12/23/04)

It made me sad to read the conversations about Jim Haley's death even though I knew he had died years ago. 
-Emily Seagle
(11/5/06)
 
CECIL J. HALEY
DAL station agent
Seniority date of 10-21-57
Per the 1/1/62 CN Agent Seniority List
C J HALEY
Reservation agent seniority date of 12/9/64, emp# 03386, per the 1/1/74 FL/ALEA Seniority List
Cannot find anything with websearch or Find-A-Grave or the 1978/79 FL News
The SSDI has two Cecil J Haleys but they both died in their 70s.
-Jake Lamkins
(7/14/11)