We combine years of experience & family tradition for you.
Family Tradition
Thomas F. Lampkin started it all by traveling to Mississippi in the early 70’s to work on the USACE Collins Creek Structure off of HWY 3 north of Vicksburg working for Guy H James Construction. Lewis Miller Construction was a subcontractor on the project and Grandpa “Shorty” subsequently went to work for Lewis Miller Sr.. Soon after Randy’s father and uncle came down from Oklahoma to work and the rest they say is history. Randy hung around the guys and a plethora of Uncles and Friends over the years to learn and watch so many predicaments that were an invaluable education. The Kiddie Crew as they were known in the Miller Days have all made successful careers from this industry. Working in the Dirt and Construction was all I was ever around and I love it just as much now as I did back then. All the different places and people you get to see and never the same job twice. I do miss watching and smelling the Black Smoke billowing out of Equipment and Trucks. Also hearing protection could have probably proved a little more useful back then according to my Family. I’m sure loud music had nothing to do with it.
Thomas F. Lampkin“Shorty” shows Randy how to use an eye level
Randy teaches his children to use a laser level and similar techniques
Choctaw Heritage
Jim G. Gibson
It’s weird to think about my Choctaw Heritage as I was learning about it when I was a kid and how confusing it was to me. “So what do you mean ?”, I would ask as a child.
I am a Choctaw of the Oklahoma Band of Choctaw Indians.
I was born and raised in Vicksburg, MS.
Mississippi being where the Choctaw originated from before my ancestors were forced to live in Oklahoma even though some were allowed to stay in what is now Philadelphia, MS.
My Choctaw Heritage was always celebrated in Oklahoma and for some reason Oklahoma always feels like home even though Mississippi is our true home for all Choctaw.
My Great Grandmother was Winnie Pope Gibson aka Winnie Katherine Pope, 1902-1995, Choctaw Roll No. 8629. She was an original enrollee and was given roll number 8629. She is memorialized in the book “Life and Times of The Choctaw Original Enrollees “, which gives a brief biography. She and my Grandfather her son, Jim G. Gibson shall forever live in my heart.
