Marie Herrin and Angelia Herrin

Recorded March 17, 2022 Archived March 17, 2022 35:17 minutes

Id: mby021564

Angelia Herrin (69) interviews her mother, Marie Herrin (92), about her childhood and their family.

MH shares the story of her, and her identical twin sister's, birth.

MH remembers her grandmother and her stepmother.

MH describes her father's various business ventures.

MH talks about what she and her twin sister had to do to keep their household running when their stepmother got sick.

MH remembers the food she and her family ate growing up.

MH shares the story of the time she went on a date in her twin sister's place.

MH describes her relationship with her twin sister.

MH tells the story of her husband's car accident.

AH and MH discuss how AH's father (MH's husband) was married to another woman before he and MH got married.

MH talks about her career as a seamstress.

MH looks back on the time she met Tex Ritter, one of her favorite Western movie stars.

MH shares what she would like her grandchildren to know about her.

Greenwood Cultural Center