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Marvin Key
She was sixteen when we married. Ten months later we had a child. We didn’t know what was causing all that I don’t reckon. But anyway she is a good person. When I was at the university she worked at the Druid City Hospital for a year or so and then she went to Bryce’s mental hospital. She could get a little more money there. She worked there until I graduated. One of (my brothers) just younger than I am, he was in service too at the same time I was. He did like I did, came back and graduated from high school and then went to the University of Alabama. We were the only two in that community that had a college degree for years. It was hard. I wasn’t all that intelligent anyway but it was hard. I went year round for three years and I graduated. I got a job at Meek High School coaching football and basketball. I was “the” coach “the only coach” for the back, line and all. We didn’t do too well and I got all I wanted of coaching football. The most enjoyable teaching was teaching math and I didn’t get much training in math. I was learning along with them, I guess. I had to work on it some but I really enjoyed it. (This was in ) junior high. I was thirty when I got out of college. I was 24 when I got out of the army, out of service. Then I fooled around and logged and all that for a year or two. Then I went back to high school and soon as I finished there and graduated from high school, I went to the University of Alabama. The GI Bill, without the GI Bill I could have never made it. I was going to try it but I couldn’t have made it. Me and a brother had a little old store there and my wife took care of it. This was while I was struggling with logging and farming and going to school. This was a general store around Arley. The building’s still there. (It was called) Key’s Grocery. (Would this have been in the late ‘40’s?) Yes, because I graduated in ‘52 from the university. (When you went off to school, did you sell the store?) Yes, I believe my sister ran it (the store) for a while and we finally closed it up. We sold it to another person and they kept open for a while. I taught math three or four years. I was at Dowling then. I would teach two or three classes in the morning and then at noon I was principal and teach PE. (How did you come to the Central Office?) Well, I talked to them about high school, transferring to high school. But I have three wonderful daughters that I appreciate so much. (Pam says:) The interesting part was before I was born. When he was going to school he was selling his blood to buy books and things. Mother worked at Bryce’s as nurse’s aide. Once a month I would sell a pint blood, I forgot now, for $20.00 I believe or something like that. Boy we would really have a feast. We would have pork chops for supper. Then we would go to a drive in movie, when I’d sell a pint of blood. (You sold your blood once a month for three years?) Probably, yeah. It finally got where it had to be 65 days you had to wait the last year or so. I was at Dowling when she (Pam) came along. Every time I came home, nine months later there was a baby born. It was about ten years before Pam was born. |
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