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1 DRAFT Interview with Fred Rose, Etta Bell Rose and Bill Mcclendon !1 DRAFT Interview with Fred Rose, Etta Bell Rose and Bill McClendon !February 27, 2008 Key to speakers: Boldface = Susan Walter Regular face = Bill McClendon Italic = Etta Bell Rose Bold italics – Fred Rose !SMALL CAPS – JIM MCVEIGH This is Susan Walter. Today’s date is February 27, 2008. And we are interviewing three people today. The first man is – !Fred Kirk Rose. Thank you. And you are – !Etta Bell McClendon Rose. And you are – !William C. McClendon. OK. What we’re going to do is, I’m going to go through each one of you individually to start to establish your relationships, and then after that we’re going to talk about your lives here in the !South Bay of San Diego County. So, Fred, your first name – is Fred a nickname? !No, it isn’t. That is my name. !Do you have any other nicknames? !No. !When were you born? !May 14, 1929. !Good. In what town and state were you born? !San Diego, California. !Can you tell me your mother’s name? Edith Grace Kirk. !2 ! !And where was she born? !Edmonton, Canada. !And your father’s name? !Fred Otto Rose. !And where was he born? !San Antonio, Texas. !How did your parents meet? My grandfather had a post office in Canada, and he was caught in a blizzard walking from Edmonton to the post office to his home. And he almost was killed by the blizzard. He was able to get in, my grandmother heard him at the door, he fell through the door and they, right then and there, they decided they were going to go to the warmest place in the USA, either Florida or San Diego. They rejected Florida because of the humidity. And that occurred about, oh, I don’t know exactly, sometime !in the teens, 1915 or so. !Why did they come – so they came out here to California for what? They came out here for the climate. They also had daughters here, three daughters, including my !mother. !Who had moved out here before they were here? The other two daughters, I believe, had moved out before they did. That probably influenced their !decision to come to San Diego. !And where first did they come to in the San Diego area? !They had a dairy over on Logan Avenue in San Diego. !And how did they get from Logan to the South Bay, Chula Vista area? My parents and I occupied a house on Idaho Street, right across the street from the big water tower. Actually, the house belonged to my mother’s parents, but they were working at the dairy so the house was available to us. In 1937 Dad wanted to move to Chula Vista. And we did. We moved to 617 D !Street in Chula Vista. !Why in particular did he want to move here? !3 He wanted to raise show chickens, Silver Laced Wyandottes, and where they were it wasn’t suitable !for that. So that was the reason. !So he went from cows to chickens? !Oh, no, he had nothing to do with cows. !I thought you said he was on a dairy. !My grandparents worked at the dairy. !Oh, I’m sorry. !Tell him what your dad did. My dad worked at Monarch Drugstore on Broadway, Fifth and Broadway, and my mother worked for Frazee’s Paint, about Ninth and Broadway. And she would walk down for lunch, and that’s how she !met my dad. !Are you married? !Am I married? !Yes. !Yes. !And can you tell me your wife’s name, please. !My wife’s name is Etta Bell Rose. !Do you have children? !I do. !And what are their names, oldest to youngest, please. !Nancy Ann Rose, Marilyn Rose and Barbara Lynne Rose. Thank you. Now we’re going to move on to the lady he’s claiming is his wife, who is sitting next to !him. Etta Bell, first, can you tell me your full name please? !My full name is Etta Bell Rose. What was your maiden name? !4 ! !McClendon. !Where were you born? !In Otay, Chula Vista now. Otay was three miles south of Chula Vista. !What part of Otay? !It was on Montgomery Street. !Montgomery Street, two blocks north of Main. !And when were you born? !1930. !Can you tell me, please, your mother’s name? !Laura Ann Simpson McClendon. !Where was she born? !In Alton, Missouri. !What was your father’s name? !Albert Lee McClendon. !Where was he born? !Bond, Texas, I believe. !We’re going to have to look that up. !How did your parents meet? My mother was teaching school in Oklahoma, and she was teaching my father’s brothers, and that’s how !she met my father. !So, you father, then, was older – Yes, he was the oldest in the family. He had had to quit school to help on the farm, and that’s how they !met. !5 !What kind of farm was it that his family had? !I assume it was cotton. Cotton and ?? corn and watermelons. They grew watermelons inside the cotton fields. That’s what they used for waterproofing in between the hot spells. If you were picking cotton, you could open up the !watermelons and eat them. !Etta Bell, can you tell me your siblings’ names, oldest to youngest? !William Clarence McClendon, Jimmy Dale McClendon. !And where do you fit in that lineup? !I’m the third one, the baby. !You’re married? !Yes, I am. !To this fellow here? !Fred Rose. !And I assume that these children are the same kids. !No. !No? You have different kids? I have – I was married before. I have to tell you, this is my third marriage. I was married first to Donald Chapman, and I had three children, Don Chapman, Janet Chapman and Corrinne Dalfort. And that marriage ended, and I married a friend from Chula Vista who I had grown up with. He was a quadriplegic by that time, he had been in an accident – Don Rice. His stepfather was Dr. Bill McCausland, here in Chula Vista. Everybody knew the McCauslands, because he was about the only doctor around. And we became reacquainted and I was never going to marry again, and he didn’t figure he could. And we became really good friends and fell in love and had almost 25 years together. Then he died in the year 2000 and in 2003, Fred’s wife died, and because we had worked together on our high school reunion committee for 15 years, we all knew each other really well. And we were already good !friends, and we fell in love and got married! So we’ve been married almost five years now. !OK. So we have – !His and mine, but not ours. Too old. !6 !Thank you. !I have two grandchildren I didn’t mention. !And what are their names? Test. !Andy Michael Bartkiewicz and Kathryn Bartkiewicz. !And do you have – !I have three grandchildren. !What are their names? Mathew Dalfort, Virginia Dalfort and Stella McClendon. And I have two step-grandchildren, also. And I forgot to mention my stepdaughter, ??? O’Reard, here in Chula Vista. She raised her children here, Patrick O’Reard and Alia O’Reard Ferguson. And then I have a new great grandson, Garrett Ferguson. !They feel like my own kids. !I’m going to go on to this guy, and you are William or Bill – !Bill. I go by Bill. !So your full name is – !William Clarence McClendon. !And your nickname is Bill. !Bill. !When were you born? !I was born on May 28, 1925. !Where were you born? !Born in Elk City, Oklahoma. !And your mother’s name? !My mother’s name was Laura Ann Simpson. !And so you are the sibling to Etta Bell. !7 !I am her older brother, oldest brother. She’s my oldest sister and also my youngest sister. !And your only sister. !So, your brothers and sisters all together – you’re the oldest – !Jimmy, Jimmy Dale’s the second one. !Jimmy’s second. !And then Etta Bell. And what was your, or is your wife’s name? !My wife’s name was Anna Louise Snider, but she married me and became McClendon. !And can you tell me your children’s names, please. My oldest is Gregory Lance. My second one is a boy named Gary Dean. My third boy is named Fred Albert; he’s named after his two grandparents. The fourth one is Michelle. My daughter, Michelle Ann, she was named after her mother, too. The youngest one is Kenneth William McClendon. I could tell you !stories why I named them that. We might get to that, too. But first I want to find out how it was that your parents got here to !Chula Vista. Oh, real easy. In 1890 something, they opened up the Oklahoma territory, the Indian country, opened it up to the Sooners. And my grandfather was living in southern Texas and he rode his horse up there, staked out some land and went back to Texas. I don’t know when he married our grandmother, but our dad was born in 1901 and they still lived in Texas. They waited until he was a year old before they went back to Oklahoma. And they got up there, it was winter time, and the property had kind of a little creek running through it, and he had to dig a hole in the side of the creek area, and lived in that with a tent from the wagon train. I used to go see my granddad and listen to all the old history.
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