Lonnie Smith and Sheryl Smith-Rodriguez
Recorded
November 4, 2023
Archived
November 4, 2023
39:45 minutes
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Id:
atl004875
Description
Lonnie Smith (90) talks to his daughter Sheryl Smith-Rodriguez (69) about their family.Subject Log / Time Code
LS talks about his early years in Shreveport, Louisiana.
LS talks about his grandfather John Smith, who was a sharecropper.
LS talks about his parents and their work as tailors.
LS talks about moving to California in June of 1945.
LS talks about attending Lafayette Junior High School and the friends he made while there.
LS talks about joining the Navy and becoming a medical corpsman.
LS talks about the draft for the Korean War and his decision to join the Navy.
LS talks about going to school to become a bacteriologist.
LS shares some lessons from his military service.
LS talks about meeting his wife, Audrey.
LS talks about his role as the neighborhood 'disciplinarian'.
SSR talks about family heritage.
They talk about the difficulties of staying close to people who live far away.
SSR talks about her mother and her aunts.
LS talks about his hopes for their family.
Participants
- Lonnie Smith
- Sheryl Smith-Rodriguez