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Before
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Mary Ann Merrill:
Mary Ann Merrill:
| Well, I was born in Arthyde, Minnesota in 1915,
16 July, and moved when I was 6 weeks old. My folks moved to Lake
Nebagamon, Wisconsin. It’s an old Indian name. We left there
in 1925. My dad had asthma, and he’d been to Mayo brothers
clinic 3 different times. They decided that he had to get out of
the cold climate and get into a warmer climate. So that’s
when we moved west. K: What was his occupation while you lived in the Midwest? M: Oh, he was a distributor for Standard Oil of Indiana. K: So you moved west in 1925, then. Where did you move to? M: We moved to Pueblo, Colorado, and we stayed there for approximately 7 months. The winters are pretty cold there, too, and they found out that Dad couldn’t take the cold so we moved to Tucson, Arizona. We lived there for several years, and then during the Depression. . .well, the work wasn’t so good there, and my father had an opportunity to come to Hoover Dam or Boulder Dam and work at the dam. So he moved here, and then Mother and I moved later on. He came in 1932. |
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