Athelia Tanner and Janet Perry
Recorded
March 26, 2009
36:57 minutes
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Id:
mby005209
Description
Janet Perry (46)interviews her mother Athelia Tanner (88) about her life and family.Subject Log / Time Code
Athelia and her husband Bill met in high school. He called her the teacher’s pet.
Bill went away on mission and Athelia continued to date other people but reconnected with him when he returned home.
Bill wanted seventeen children because he had grown up in a small family.
Living in Idaho, lots of potato recipes.
Athelia tells the story of how she and her husband got a 36 room house for themselves and their thirteen children. They called the house Tanner Manor and later Tanner Manner.
Participants
- Athelia Tanner
- Janet Perry
Venue / Recording Kit
Tier
Keywords
- 36 room house
- anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
- Athelia
- Bee Hive
- Bill
- birth of first child
- brown checked dress
- Bryan
- car fare
- Chores
- Church
- City and County Building
- Claralyn
- Daken
- donuts
- Duties
- family trips and excursions
- free day
- Great Depression stories
- Idaho
- Janet
- Jesus Christ
- John
- Kaye
- lds
- License
- making clothes
- Mark
- memories of former times
- memories of growing up
- Minnesota
- Mission
- Money
- Our Father
- personal experiences
- potatoes
- Psychologist
- religious beliefs and practices
- Richard
- Ring
- Roberta
- sack of sugar
- school day memories
- Scott
- slumber party
- social beliefs and practices
- soda fountain
- Spouse
- Star
- Tanner Manner
- teacher’s pet
- Terri
- Three dollars
- Tres
- vest
- work space, hardhat, etc. decorations