Profile for 23 November 2008 - Kirk Thomas Metty
Kirk Thomas Metty was born at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri on Thanksgiving day 1961. 
He spent his earliest years in Ketchikan, Alaska where his father was serving in the U. S. Coast Guard. From there, the family moved to Port Arthur, Texas; then Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, Governor's Island, New York, and finally Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Kirk graduated from Moore, Oklahoma High School in the spring of 1979 and enrolled at Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, Oklahoma that fall. He graduated from OSU in 1983 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, he spent one year in Haiti working as a volunteer in the mission field.
Upon his return from Haiti he married Kellee Anne Brackett on 20 July 1985 at Elkridge, MD. Following his marriage, he went to work for Texas Instruments in Plano, Texas and remained with them until late 1990. During a portion of this time he served on a project engineering team in Italy engaged in the construction of a new plant. He later migrated to Burroughs-Welcome which was absorbed by Glaxo. In 2003 he terminated his association with Glaxo and began his own company, the Tuscan Group.
He spent his earliest years in Ketchikan, Alaska where his father was serving in the U. S. Coast Guard. From there, the family moved to Port Arthur, Texas; then Mobile, Alabama, New Orleans, Louisiana, Governor's Island, New York, and finally Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Kirk graduated from Moore, Oklahoma High School in the spring of 1979 and enrolled at Oklahoma State University at Stillwater, Oklahoma that fall. He graduated from OSU in 1983 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. After graduation, he spent one year in Haiti working as a volunteer in the mission field.
Upon his return from Haiti he married Kellee Anne Brackett on 20 July 1985 at Elkridge, MD. Following his marriage, he went to work for Texas Instruments in Plano, Texas and remained with them until late 1990. During a portion of this time he served on a project engineering team in Italy engaged in the construction of a new plant. He later migrated to Burroughs-Welcome which was absorbed by Glaxo. In 2003 he terminated his association with Glaxo and began his own company, the Tuscan Group.
Today, Kirk and Kellee make their home in the rural area of North Carolina, near Pittsboro. They are the parents of four of the next generation of the Metty Family line, namely: Abby, Jon, Nate and Jessica.
Comments
I think my grandpa (Joseph Clifford Metty) was a cousin to Cleo. I was born Dec 1 1961 .. and I wish I'd grown up with cousins! My husband has fond memories of a band of cousins
hanging out every summer.
Kara Metty Strite