HAROLD MAXWELL 1956 - 1985 STATION AGENT, STATION MANAGER, REGIONAL MANAGER FSM MKO HUT TOP OKC MKC DEN ABQ SLC TV-5 is my old station...I did TV wx on KFSA-5 when I was an agent in FSM... also did the station break ...you know...this is KFSA channel five..fort smith, ar that stuff -Harold Maxwell (8/28/04) No, I didn't know you did the weather. Where all did you work at FL & what positions? I can remember you at FSM MKC & SLC but I know there are lots more. Paul & I are planning to drive up for the MCI Reunion. Are you going? -Jake Lamkins (8/28/04) FSM-agent MKO- manager HUT-manager TOP-manager OKC-manager MKC-manager DEN-reg-mgr west div ABQ-manager SLC-manager I plan the MKC reunion..see you there -Harold Maxwell (8/28/04) Harold told me at the 2006 PIGnic that he and Marcheta Bowlin never did get married even though the Jul 1959 article said they were engaged. He didn't remember what happened. -Jake Lamkins (8/21/06) Although I was never a FL employee myself I did work in the airline industry for 15 years. Growing up around the FL family I defiantly feel a certain kinship to all of the members of the Frontier Alumni Group. I remember the sense of community that all of the employees felt for each other and as someone who has worked for other airlines in the past I have never seen that sense of pride and cohesion replicated anywhere else. Frontier was truly a rare and special organization. Because I am not a former employee myself I will be mostly sitting on the sidelines enjoying all of your members communications. I just wanted to say thanks for having me as a member. I am grateful for all of the wonderful opportunities that the company gave my family for all those many years. -Kevin Maxwell (9/22/07) I remember FSM when we sumped the gas tanks at night... Doyle and I sumped about 5 gallons each and it run pretty good in your car.. you know, for $250.00 a month a company should furnish gas. One time when I was in FSM I had to be the stew from FSM-FYV-STL and return to FSM. (After Frontier) I was with Trans Star at LAX...I was there for about 3 months before going to MIA...what a great little company.. -Harold Maxwell (7/10/09) I was in the GO 1971-1973 Was in MIA (with Trans Star) in Jan 1986. I started the day the space shuttle blew up. I was driving on hwy A1A in N. Miami Beach and saw it fall out of the sky. -Harold Maxwell (1/28/12) I will be unable to attend the Old Farts. My 45 year old son had heart attack. Blood clot to lungs and passed away week ago Sunday. Services last Wednesday. He was single so I'm taking care of his affairs. -Harold Maxwell (10/28/14) Harold, I'm sorry to hear about your loss. Paul sends his condolences too. -Jake Lamkins (10/28/14) Saw Harold Maxwell at the Old FARTS meeting and he recounted the accident which caused him to lose his eyesight in one eye. It happened about 1981 when he was the SLC manager. I did not know Harold was blind in one eye. He was striking a metal piece with a hammer while repairing something and a bit of metal flew into his eye lodging near his optic nerve so that it can't be operated on without risking the loss of sight in his other eye. -Jake Lamkins (4/28/15) Sorry I can't make FYV/FSM picnic this year. Will be at Silver Dollar City attending southern gospel. Going there for two weeks. Top southern gospel music in the nation. First day August 23. Possibly see Jim Mustain there. -Harold Maxwell (8/8/16) HAROLD D. MAXWELL MKO station manager Agent seniority date of 4/16/56. -Jake Lamkins (10/31/17) FYV Old FARTS meeting Harold Maxwell and I got in a good one-on-one meeting. He started working after high school graduation in Spiro, OK (about 1953) for the Pontiac Division of General Motors in Detroit. He was a production checker in the section where ladies cut and sewed car seats. His job was to tally their output throughout the shift. They had a quota they had to fill which some did in four hours then loafed and others struggled to get it done in eight hours. A co-worker and friend who was interested in working for the airlines invited a Weaver Airline School salesman to have lunch with them. Harold was a bit tired of his Pontiac job after two plus years and signed up for the school too. He went to Kansas City for their school and not long before his graduation a Central Airlines person visited the school and interviewed people for jobs. Harold doe not remember his name but he offered him a job in Ft. Smith or Tulsa. He took the Ft. Smith job (4/16/56) since it was close to his home near Spiro. His dad farmed so Harold started farming some of his acreage while working at Central too. After a drought made him lose money one year he quit farming. He went from FSM station agent to MKO station manager then to HUT station manager and the rest is history. When Kerry Allen left MKC in about 1968 he became manager and Bob Brown was his assistant. Bob went to STL about Sep 1968 replacing George Slivka and Jim Shores who was acting manager. Harold is heading to Alamo, TX for the winter shortly after Thanksgiving and will see Bob who has a winter place in the area. He had also heard from Ken Gann who lives in the ATL area now and helps his sons in their marble business. -Jake Lamkins (10/31/17) FYV Old FARTS meeting Just Harold Maxwell and I showed up and he told me all about some things: He was married after Frontier and lived in BUF with a woman running a travel agency. They re-incorporated the agency for tax purposes so the wife had 51% and he had 49%. She promptly fired him and ejected him from their home. He ended up back in this area and started a NAPA store in Gentry, AR. and made way more money from it than anything else he has ever done. Bill Franklin, of CN, FL and WN was running Trans-Star which morphed from MuseAir when he was given MIA station manager. He told me that Bev Grear was sleeping with Joe O'Gorman so he made her a VP when he came to FL. She had no executive experience at all. That explains a lot. Harold had been in the hospital enough to run up a $94,000 bill but his insurance was covering it so far. He was better and back to mowing the cemetery where he does volunteer work. He will be 84 in a few weeks. Has been healthy most of his life. -Jake Lamkins (9/24/19) FYV Old FARTS meeting Paul Farris, Harold Maxwell, Johnny Selph and me. Lots of talk about Frontier days and all of us struggling to remember names. Harold said he was heading out west to New Mexico where a son lives and will not see us for four months or so. He was taking his old motorhome. We got the waitress to take a photo of us with Johnny's phone. -Jake Lamkins (10/26/21) FLacebook on 2/26/22 Kevin Maxwell Dear friends, This is Kevin, Harold's eldest son. Our father crossed into heaven at 10:36 on February 25th. Despite being double vaccinated and boosted, he contracted Covid and was unable to recover. He passed while visiting Arizona for the winter. We will take him home to Oklahoma. I will post service arrangements once confirmed. Thank you. Al Sprenger Having been in the training department for Frontier I had numerous occasions to work with Harold. Always enjoyed his company very much. John Redwine So sorry to share the passing of my longtime friend Harold Maxwell, a 1953 graduate of Spiro High. In 1963, I was interested in a job change. Harold was in management with Central Airlines, a regional carrier serving 40 cities in six states that merged with Frontier Airlines in 1967. He was home visiting his parents when I bumped into him and dropped the hint I would be interested in working for Central. Within a week I had a call from Central’s home office in Ft. Worth, advising me to pickup a ticket at the Ft. Smith airport to fly down for an interview. The day after Thanksgiving 1963, I started my 11-year career with Central/Frontier in Kansas City, transferring to Ft. Smith 5 months later. Thanks Harold for the job and the occasional chats the past 58 years! Bronwyn Milhaven Maxwell It is with a extremely heavy heart to say that my sweet, adorable, one of a kind father-in-law, Harold Maxwell has gone home to be with his lord and to be reunited with his youngest son, Kraig. I won the father-in-law lottery with him. I will miss our morning and daily texts and silly stories. We were lucky to have him here for the past few months and I am thankful that Kevin and I were by his side when he passed. (2/28/22) FLacebook Frontier Memorial Webpage Posted HAROLD MAXWELL 1956 - 1985 STATION AGENT, STATION MANAGER, REGIONAL MANAGER FSM MKO HUT TOP OKC MKC ABQ DEN SLC http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Harold_Maxwell.html Post your remembrances of him. -Jake Lamkins (3/19/22) Posted at Keith's Facebook page. All of Harold's many friends at the old Frontier Airlines are saddened to hear of his passing. Our condolences to his family. http://FAL-1.tripod.com/Harold_Maxwell.html -Jake Lamkins (3/19/22)