Ralph Dozier leans back on his pickup’s tailgate, a light breeze and shade from a big, old walnut tree making it seem cooler than the 90 degrees of the current warm spell.
He studies the recently rehabilitated barn on the Dozier home place north of Moran, sighs and allows that “hard work probably killed Dad.”
His father, Harold Dozier, died at age 59 in 1970, less than 30 years after he single-handedly built the barn, which showed then, and still does today, that he was skilled in carpentry, masonry and all other things he did,…
A monument to hard work Family barn sees renovation, brings back fond memories
