Douglas Gabbert will speak at the Worth County Alumni Reunion that will be held on Sunday, June 28th, 2026. The dinner will start at 12:30 in the Worth County School Cafeteria and will be followed by the program.
Mr. Gabbert graduated from Worth County in the bicentennial year of 1976. He was introduced to honeybees by a Florida friend of the family shortly after graduation. After two years at Northwest, he took up the life of migratory beekeeper. He wintered in Florida and migrated to Missouri, North Dakota, or Iowa during the summers until he joined the Army in 1986.
Before he finished his four-year enlistment, he met and married his wife Ellen, a Department of Defense school teacher who blessed him with two daughters. After several years in Germany, she was transferred to Panama City (Panama), where Douglas tended to his daughters while his wife worked. He returned to beekeeping, enabling his wife to end her service with the Department of Defense Schools, move back to the states, and concentrate on raising their daughters.
Seeking a lifestyle with less time away from his wife and children, Douglas went back to school to learn computer programming, a skill that in 2000 landed him his current job at Contemporary Machinery & Engineering Services in Flagler Beach (FL) where he automates machines for the railroad industry.
He is a member of the Cedarhurst Church of Christ in Jacksonville (FL) where he is on a rotation to preach the gospel once a month. He still dabbles in bees and dreams of raising a garden, stocking ponds, and having some livestock on his portion of the family farm near Oxford.
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