Mike Victory
“Seadrift just seemed like home.”

When asked why Mike and his wife Cilia have lived in Seadrift for thirty years Mike commented, “Seadrift just seemed like home.” What impressed Cilia about Seadrift was the way the townspeople rallied around their family when they needed help.

Cilia and Mike attend a local church named “New Beginnings” where Mike was water baptized. “I just wanted to get closer to God,” Mike said about his experience. Cilia had her moment with God when as an eleven-year-old she went forward at a tent revival to receive Jesus as her Savior. Cilia remembers the singing, the playing of the drums, and the pastor’s invitation to come forward to receive Jesus, and Cilia did just that! Now Cilia says, “Going to church is the highlight of the week.”

Originally from Corpus Christi, Mike is an Army veteran who served in Germany as an ambulance mechanic. He is retired from the City of Point Comfort where he worked for eighteen years. Before that he worked at Brown and Root as a sandblaster and a painter for fifteen years.

Cilia grew up in Bloomington where she was a landfill attendant for seven years. She worked at Formosa as an electrician’s helper for a year and a half, was a housekeeper at the Captain’s Quarters in Seadrift for thirteen years, and did janitorial work at the Seadrift First National Bank and the Seadrift Methodist Church for nine years. She retired from the Seadrift School where she worked full-time doing janitorial work for seven years.

Mike and Cilia have been married almost forty-six years, have three children, and eleven grandchildren.

Mike and Cilia Victory