Age: 34
Served: 6¼ Years
July 15, 1952 to October 16, 1958
OFFICER
Tex was born November 10, 1923 in Dayton, Ohio to Alexander Steffan and Garnet J. (Mull) Pitakos (or Petrakos). Alexander immigrated from Greece in 1908 and worked as a cash register assembler. Near the end of Prohibition, Alexander was rumored to be a member of the underworld in Dayton and known as Alex the Greek. He was shot and killed in the Crystal Gardens gambling room on April 12, 1931. When Tex was eight years old, his mother took him and his brother, Robert, to Newport where she married John Blankenship, a railroad yard conductor.
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