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Marvin Key
(What else did you do to get through college?) I had a little place where I could make me a garden. They had barracks, Army barracks. There was a big general hospital, Arley Hospital, and we lived in those huts or buildings. I would have a few rows of garden. Then we would come home and mother and daddy would have a big garden. We couldn’t buy much. It wasn’t easy but I didn’t realize it back then. I just took it as it come. Did the best I could. Course I grew up the hard way too. Well, I haven’t accomplished a whole lot in the way of finances. I am a poor manager of money. I had some lake property but I gave it to her (Pam) and my oldest grandson. (Is your home now near where you were raised?). About twenty miles due west. (Did the lake get near your old home place?). Oh yeah, got most of it. My daddy didn’t have anything 'til that water backed up. He got a lot of money ahead. (My daddy lived to be) 82 and mama, I had to take care of her and finally had to put her in a nursing home. She lived to be 88, I believe. The land that they got, they inherited 40 acres. All of the family inherited 40 acres. He bought this particular place down on Sipsey River. He bought part of the others’ 40 acres, so he had 80 acres. The backwater backed up nearly all the way around that. He sold a lot of it. I guess he was about 60. He finally sold the old home place down there and moved out up on the road where the bus could have got to it. Finally they got a road down that way. We didn’t have a car. My dad and mama were good, poor, honest people. I loved them so much. I really never did retire. I kept driving the media mobile. He hired me for that before I retired. Spiritual matters, we were raised to go to church and I knew that God, He answered prayers. We believed in that. Treat people like you want to be treated or better. Financial situation, it’s not too good but we’re getting by alright. On raising children in my opinion you have to be firm, let them know you love them and make sure they do what you tell them to do and hope they will remember that later. My first year at the university they were on the quarter system and then they changed to the semester system. (Fifteen semester hours is a good load?) Well, I took from eighteen to 21 (semester hours). Well, they found that I have lung cancer but they said it’s the best kind to have if you’ve got to have one. It’s slow and I believe they said it’s curable. I have been taking treatments for a month and a half, one a day, five days a week, and I’ve got three more and I’ll be through. They haven’t bothered me at all. I work and garden and do anything I want to do. (I’ve always enjoyed pretty good health) and I thank the Good Lord for that. I am 82 and that’s a pretty good life. My great-granddaddy lacked six days living to 111. He was from Randolph county and here and then they moved out to Oklahoma. He was on the Fuller side, my mother’s side. They originated in Randolph County. Mom was twelve years old when they moved to Arley, Winston County. Her daddy lived to be 85 I believe it was. She was 88. That’s a long life. My grandfather (on the Key side) had pneumonia at 51 and died. I never did know him. My grandmother took over the family and worked hard and did a good job of raising them. They owned several different places. You know, 80 acres here and 80 acres there. I don’t know how they accomplished this. My granddaddy Key was a big Mason. Evidently he knew it pretty well and he would go around, ride a horse or a mule, and my grandmother would stay there and work the farm while he was gone. I believe there were fourteen (children). |
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