Patricia Barbee and Justin Cummins
Recorded
September 7, 2023
Archived
September 7, 2023
40:25 minutes
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Id:
ddv002660
Description
Patricia Barbee [no age given] tells her conversation partner Justin Cummins (32) about her childhood and how she met her husband, Sgt. John Wesley Barbee. They remember Sgt. Barbee, their relationship, his time at war, and his passing while fighting overseas.Subject Log / Time Code
Patricia (P) shares memories of growing up in Boston and the school she attended.
P shares what her goals were when she was younger and remembers the people she would routinely see on the street in childhood.
P remembers volunteering at the Veterans Administration and the opportunities that brought her.
P recalls her husband's, John Wesley Barbee, work with the civil rights movement.
P shares the story of meeting her husband and how meeting him was brought on indirectly by a punishment from her mother.
P remembers her husband getting transferred and them moving to New Jersey. She remembers what she enjoyed doing with him most.
P reflects on the day Martin Luther King, Jr. (MLK) was killed and her husband's reaction. Her husband was a friend of MLK.
P remembers some stories of her husband's time being assigned to Okinawa and his death.
P shares what she wants people to know about her husband, John.
P describes how she remembers and honors him to this day.
Participants
- Patricia Barbee
- Justin Cummins