OHB 0050 | Oral History

OHB 0050

Vice-president and cashier, Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Krum, Texas; owner and operator of R & R Variety Store, Mesquite, Texas. Family background; banking operations in Krum, early 1900s; social life in Krum, early 1900s; education at College of Industrial Arts (Texas Woman’s University); comments on teaching in Orange and Port Arthur, Texas; work as organizer of Texas Woman’s University’s Ex-Student Association; teaching in Lordsburg, New Mexico; establishment of R & R Variety Store in Mesquite, 1936; construction of new store; shortage of labor during World War II; sale of business and comments on discrimination experiences as businesswoman; social life in Mesquite; views on Depression; employment at Farmers and Merchants State Bank in Krum, 1950; comments on bank’s clientele; computerization of bank, 1973; experiences as victim of bank robberies; comments on retirement.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 103 pp. plus documents (16 pp.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Floyd Jenkins
Date of Interview March 12, 1981

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