Donald William Inslee was sent to Jamaica where he lived in primitive conditions and constructed fish ponds using primitive methods.
Donald William Inslee was born July 20, 1955 at Nashville, Kansas, the third child of Theop and Phyllis Mullikin Inslee. Donald attended elementary schools in Pratt, Emporia, and Ogallah, Kansas, and Suttle, Alabama; junior high in Ogallah, Kansas, and Ada, Oklahoma; he graduated from Ada High School in 1973. After graduation he moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma where he was employed.
After completing Murray State College at Tishomingo, Oklahoma he enrolled at Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, Oklahoma. He spent one summer at the research station on Lake Texhoma. Donald graduated from OSU in 1979 with a degree in zoology and enlisted in the Peace Corps fisheries program. He was sent to Jamaica where he lived in primitive conditions and constructed fish ponds using primitive methods. After his return to Ada he worked with his brothers in the construction business.
On April 1, 1984, Donald married Sheridan "Sherry" Carter at the Asbury Methodist Church in Ada, Oklahoma. Sherry is the daughter of Jesse and Gladys Byler Carter. Donald has adopted Sherry's two children: Tammy Jeanette Crawford, born November 14, 1970 at Shreveport, LA and Michael Allen Crawford, born May 19, 1973 at Houston, TX.
Donald is a carpenter, a welder, and works in the construction field. The family lives on a farm southeast of Fitzhugh, OK in a house designed and built by Donald. He is very much involved with the family fish farm.
Donald remembers taking his afternnon nap in the tire swing under the big tree by the cave, and watching the family dog, Huckleberry, chasing rabbits in the wheat field south of the house. He and his brothers and sister have a great respect for the value of hard work, and this respect began on the Inslee farm at Isabel.
Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987, pg. 102
