Saturday, June 22, 2013

Clovis Road Authors

Robert J. Samuelson and Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson

       +Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson and her husband, +Dr. Robert John Samuelson, became extremely intrigued with the Hunt murder story when Dana’s mother, +Danny Sue Middlebrooks, told them about a Littlefield doctor and his wife being murdered in their own home in the 1940s. Dana’s mother was nine at the time of the murders, and she didn’t remember much, except what her mother had mentioned about it. Dana and Bob were immediately drawn to the story, as Dana had been delivered on June 22, 1956 in the Littlefield Hospital by +Dr. Fred Janes, Jr., Dr. Hunt’s best friend. Dana grew up in Littlefield,  and her grandmother, Mrs. Martha Powell, was a nurse in the same hospital that Dr. Hunt practiced in for many years. Dana’s father had worked for Pantex during World War II when Herbert Deere, Jim Thomas' friend and killer, worked there.
    Dana’s husband,  Robert, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a  B. S. in Pharmacy, attended graduate school, and then entered Southwestern Medical School in 1967. He graduated with high honors and A.O.A. in 1971. He completed his internship and residency in anesthesiology in 1974 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. He then served in the U. S. Army  and was discharged with the rank of major and an Army Commendation Medal. In 1976, he began medical practice with Dallas Anesthesiology Associates.  He then attended two years of graduate studies at Dallas Theological Seminary.
    Dana attended Littlefield High School, South Plains College, Texas Tech University, and graduated from the University of North Texas in 1981. She worked for Pennwalt Corporation, Abbott Laboratories, and CIBA-Giegy Pharmaceutical from 1981 to 1992 as a pharmaceutical representative. She worked as a sales representative in the Apparel Mart in Dallas from 1979 to 1982. She has accomplished catalog, print, and runway modeling as well as Arabic dancing. She did three years of graduate studies in  psychology and was recognized in a writing concept contest by the Dallas Morning News.
    Dana and Robert married in 1989, and they share interests in medicine, genealogy, Littlefield, true crime, and Texas history. That background and all the coincidences in the story later discovered while researching the Dr. Roy Hunt murders, gave them the motivation, desire, and passion to write all of the story that has not been fully revealed to the public until now.  The Samuelsons previously published Common Ground the Wheat and the Chaff in 2005. Clovis Road II is available by writing Highgate Publishing, 6257 Highgate Lane, Dallas, Texas 75214 with $36.81 check or money order.
Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson - Author - Clovis Road

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