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Wilma Reed.
I was born March the 3rd, 1932.
I was born at Juliet, Missouri.
Who were your parents?
Clarence and Caroline Fireball.
What about grandparents?
My grandparents on my dad’s side was Emerson and Tampa.
T-E-M-P-A. Fireball.
And then my mother’s side was Noah and Talitha.
I don’t know how to spell that.
Young.
And what do you remember about growing up in Juliet?
Well, it was very, very country, you know.
And my first remembrance was, you know, of course, everybody lived out in the country, you know, and all that.
But we lived in a place and I didn’t ever know it that then.
And I don’t know if people called that then, but in the later years, they called it Fireball Haller, you know.
And, of course, we walked to school all the time.