FLUKER FARMS INC

The book Those Fluker Kents is a result of fifteen years of family history and research by Gerry Carley and Gwynette Kent Dixon.

Gwynette Kent Dixon, a great-granddaughter of James Fluker Kent, graduated from Amite High School. She later graduated from Southeastern Louisiana College and Louisiana State University. After a career in teaching high school biology in Columbus, Georgia, and Baton Rouge, Louisiana, she was the co-founder and CEO of Corporate Computer Systems, Inc (Microage of Baton Rouge), a position she filled for twenty years. After the death of her father, Richard A Kent, Jr., she assumed the management of Spreading Oaks, a company in Fluker, providing financing for bus sales by Kent-Mitchell, the school bus distributorship her father founded in 1961. In 2004 Gwynette married Jim Dixon, and resides in Fluker.

Gerry became interested in the Kent family of Fluker while listening to stories told by his father-in-law, Richard A. Kent, Jr., about his life growing up in Fluker during the twenties and thirties, and tales about Kent ancestors. Gerry is graduate of Amite High School, Amite, Louisiana (6 miles south of Fluker), Gerry attended Southeastern Louisiana College, and graduated from Auburn University and Louisiana State University with degrees in Mechanical Engineering. After a tour of duty in the Air Force as a C-141 pilot, Gerry worked for Texaco and General Dynamics before joining Braniff International as an airline pilot. He later worked for the State of Louisiana, founded and owned two computer companies, Corporate Computer Systems (Microage of Baton Rouge) and Express Claim Processing, a medical computer services company, and served as a hurricane pilot in the Air Force Reserve. He retired from Continental Airlines in 2005 as a B-767 Captain, and lives in Daphne, Alabama, with his wife Brenda.