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GRANDDAD’S LIFE PART 5 Posted on November 3, 2012 by Martin Jones
The Great Depression came along and
times became very hard for everyone. I can’t remember if it started before or
after the janitor’s job at the school. But I remember that my granddaddy had to
apply and get on the WPA. This was a work project that the federal government
paid workers to do public work. I think they got $21.00 per month. They worked
doing things like building schools, bridges, roads and highways. And even
building out houses. The out houses were state of the art things with a pit dug
under a concrete floor, with a nice seat with a lid and a vent pipe out through
the roof. Along about this time daddy moved in a little 2 room house onto the
back of our lot for my grandparents to live in. They continued to live there
until around 1950, when granddaddy died. When he died, daddy moved the little
house up closer to his house, and grandmother lived there until daddy retired
and moved to Crowell. Even then he moved this little house to Crowell and put
it on a lot close to his house. Grandmother lived there with my mother mostly
taking care of her for several years, until my sister Faye and Bill moved to
Canadian, Texas to be a game warden. They had a house next door to mother and
daddy. Then Grandmother moved into their house and lived there until she was
moved into a nursing home in Abilene, where her daughter Lucy lived. She died
there around 1984. I think that she was about 90 years old.
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