On 19 Aug 2015, I posted 50 Interview Questions. Answers to questions 1-5 located here. Enjoy the answers for questions 6 through 10 from my interview with my Mom!
- What is your earliest childhood memory?
- I remember hearing on the radio that the war ended in 1945. We were playing across the street. We used to play across the street with the other kids in the trees and swing off the tree limbs. I was swinging on one of the tree limbs and it broke.
- At the time, we just had radio, no television. The radio had murder mysteries acted out by various people.
- Describe the personalities of your family members.
- Father (Melzar Williams)
- My father always worked. I remember him rushing from one job to another.
- He sold the timber off his wife’s property in Quitman, MS without her knowledge.
- Periodically, he told stories about his time in the Merchant Marines. He joined as a cook and used a recipe to make the food – he became a baker doing cakes, pies, etc. If the recipes didn’t turn out there was so much food that the mistakes could be tossed and you could start over until you got it right. The ship could not dock in New Guinea so the supplies had to be transported to shore.
- Daddy Chappy played the trumpet at a lot of the events.
- Father (Melzar Williams)
