(Interviews recorded on November 18, 2017 at their home in St. Louis, MO)
Betty had just graduated from high school. She was very attractive! We were at the sodality meeting. The boys and the girls would meet in the old school building. The whole idea was to keep all the Catholic boys and girls together at that time. The boys would sit up there drinking beer and playing cards, and the girls would be out on the floor dancing…
Well, I was about 15 years old. Went to work and caught my hand in the machine. When it should’ve gone up, it come down on me. I was very fortunate though. I was not handicapped by the injury. I was still a cocky individual. I spoke out about things that I didn’t approve of…
I was 86 this past August. Born in St. Louis, Missouri. We did real simple things: Kick-the-Can and Mother-May-I and things like that. And you know, I know the kids have all these exciting things, but you know, we had real simple things and it was a lot of fun…