Virginia McConnaha Kranz, Lisa Kranz Meuser, and Dave Kranz
Recorded
April 20, 2008
Archived
April 20, 2008
40:14 minutes
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Id:
MBY003888
Description
Lisa, 44, and Dave, 52, interview Virginia, 80, about growing up on a farm in Illinois and meeting her husband, Dick.Subject Log / Time Code
Earliest memory: stuck head through banister, hearing chimes for the first time.
Had plenty during the Depression, but some did not.
Attending high school during WWII.
Meeting husband; she was a secretary at the hospital, and he was a reporter who would call in for statistics. Their first date was at a murder inquest.
Their honeymoon was a motor trip to New Orleans, first time she saw segregation and the ocean.
Since Dick’s death, doesn’t laugh as much.
Participants
- Virginia McConnaha Kranz
- Lisa Kranz Meuser
- Dave Kranz
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Appearance
- Blanche McConnaha
- Bob Freitas
- California
- Catholic conversions
- Champaign News Gazette, IL
- Chicago, IL
- Childhood Games
- craft, skills, and procedures
- Driving
- Eastern Illinois Teacher’s College
- Edith McConnaha Hohn
- Ethel McConnaha Fell
- family members in history
- Family Traditions
- family trips and excursions
- flight attendants
- Gene Shalit
- Hobos
- Honeymoons
- Illinois
- Jeffrey Kranz
- Maxine McConnaha Galbreath
- Meadow Gold ice cream
- Meeting the parents
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- murder inquests
- New Years Eve
- Paris, IL
- personal experiences
- Railroads
- religious beliefs and practices
- Ruth Connelly
- school day memories
- schoolyard games
- Shirley Temple
- sports writers
- Spouse
- St. Patrick’s Church, Urbana, IL
- TWA airlines
- University of Illinois
- William Clyde McConnaha