Amanuensis Monday - Rosalie Mason Hammock

Rosalie Mason Hammock was born on December 27, 1924, in Cherokee, OK, and died on June 17, 2006. In 1930 she was living with her parents, Harry James Mason and Gladys (Hale) Mason, in the town of Glen Elder, Mitchell County, KS. By 1940 the family was living in Inspiration, Gila County, AZ, a company town owned by the Inspiration Consolidated Copper Company. Five years earlier, they had been living in Custer, OK. Rosalie was a 1942 graduate of Miami (AZ) High School.

At this writing, there is an online obituary at Legacy.com.

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Transcription of the interview abstract. All typos and misspellings appear as in the original.

Craig R. Schill
Dr. Hinton, Hist 399

INTERVIEW: Mrs. Rosalee Hammock. Born in 1921. Came to Arizona in
                           1936. Interview took place on March 17, 1989.

I. came to AZ in 1936
     a. Safford
     b. Uncle was school worker
     c. came to Miami for a job

II. Father
     a. was an electrition
     b. worked in the Miami Mines, underground.
     c. Magnesium plant

III. Moved to Tempe
     a. housing scarse
     b. oldest brother is in Navy
     c. became a nurse
     d. went to ASU for a semester
     e. first cooling systems

IV. Food refrigeration
     a. ice boxes
     b. ice chunk on top, drips down

V. Education
     a. family went to ASU

VI. Tempe
     a. main population was made up of ROTC and students

VII. First car
     a. Model T and A Fords

VIII. Roads

IX. Prejudice

X. Were changes for the better or for the worse
     a. better
          -traffic
     b. worse
          -farm land taken away
          -no turkey farms any more

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