Tuesday, July 2nd
Ironton Branch, 10am
Fredericktown Branch, 2pm
Events and Oral History Podcast
Tuesday, July 2nd
Ironton Branch, 10am
Fredericktown Branch, 2pm
Monday, June 17th at 2pm
Fredericktown Branch
Monday, June 17th at 10am
Ironton Branch
Tuesday, June 11th, 6pm
Ironton Branch
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My name is Linda Gay Whitener. I was born March 11, 1953 at Saint Mary’s in Ironton Missouri.
What to you remember of your childhood?
It’s really easy to remember because I lived there until the 6th grade. I’ve been here all my life. Just recently moved in with my significant other on High Street just a couple of houses down from the elementary school.
Right after my birth we lived on Z Highway but I don’t remember that. My parents were George Robert Whitener and Helen Maple Miller Whitener. We moved to 310 High Street soon after I was born. One of my early memories is sitting with my dog Peppy, a black and white chihuahua on our gray couch and chair while everyone was working. Her dad would bring her a snack and drink while she sat and watched.
Thursday June 6th, 6pm
Ironton Branch
Thursday, June 6th at 6pm
Fredericktown Branch
Summer 2019
Fredericktown Branch
Saturday, June 1st, 11am – 1pm
Ironton Branch
Thursday, May 30th 4 – 6pm
Ozark Regional Library, Viburnum Branch
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My name is Glenda, my maiden name was Robinson, I was married to John Skaggs who passed away and then I was married to Judd Pierce who also passed away. I was born July 2nd, 1934. I’ll be 85 years old this year. I had 6 brothers and sisters, 4 brothers, 2 sisters. There were seven children in the family. I was born north of Patton Junction on a farm where we lived until I was about 5 years old. One story I remember about the farm house is going out for the day and forgetting my little sister. Back then you didn’t have playpens or strollers so you would put a child’s dress tail under a table leg to keep them from crawling away.
We moved out to a place on HWY 51 north of Patton Junction. My father opened a filling station there. We lived there until I was 9 years old and that’s when we moved to Fredericktown. While we were there one of the things I remember best was working in the truck garden. We would work there while my dad worked at his filling station. I remember my mom would put my little sister in a horse collar to keep her from crawling away while we were working.
Monday, April 29th at 4pm
Ozark Regional Library, Ironton Branch
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My name is Margaret Miller. I was a Warnicker. I was born in Iron Mountain Missouri in 1931. My dad was a miner. In 1931, of course, the depression was starting. Iron Mountain was a mining town and there was a strip of company houses across from the mines. We lived in a big house. Then the mines shut down and my dad lost his job. At that point he began taking city people on hunting trips as a guide which provided a good income. He also hunted and fished for food. We also had a garden.
I was the only girl. I had an older brother, Charles, who was eight years older than I was. I was the only girl in the extended family. I was probably a little spoiled. When I was six my younger was born.
I went to school in Iron mountain but often also stayed with my grandmother in Mine LaMotte and would sometimes go to school there. There was no high school in Iron Mountain so my older brother went to high school in Mine LaMotte and would stay with my grandmother.
Tuesday, April 30th at 5:30
Ozark Regional Library, Annapolis
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My name is Della Starkey Rhodes, my parents were Roy and Nellie Starkey. I was born in 11/1 of 1935 just below Marquand across from the Whitener cemetery. I was born in a two story house in the upstairs bedroom. I don’t remember the doctor’s name.
Our house was on DD HWY but back then it was called Castor River Road.
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My First memories are living a mile down below that where my grandparents lived. My dad built a house there. My grandparents were “truck” farmers. They hauled a lot of lime, farmer supplies and logs.
Truck farming is large fields of product such as corn, beans, and potatoes which are sold. We moved from there when I was 10. My dad bought a 325 acre farm about a mile below that. At the time my dad worked at the mines here in Fredericktown at National Lead.
Tuesday, April 23rd at 6pm
Ozark Regional Library, Ironton Branch
Thursday, April 18th at 6pm
Ozark Regional Library, Fredericktown Branch
Tuesday, April 9th, 6pm
Ozark Regional Library, Ironton Branch
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Norman Boland, born in Desloge, Missouri in 1930. Before that, in Desloge, they lived about a half mile from the chat dump. Before Norman was born his dad worked at the National mine mill. He was laid off around 1930 and worked at the WPA a few days a week but was otherwise unemployed for awhile. Norman eventually had seven siblings.
During their time in Desloge they didn’t have much. They would get out of date food from the dumpster and salvage food that was still good. He talks about being six years old and going out to play for the day. He’d take off with cornbread in his pocket and pick fruit from trees and bushes. Norman describes the house they lived in and tells the story of that house burning and getting rebuilt.
Thursday, April 11th, 6pm
Ozark Region Library Fredericktown Branch