Oral history interview with Ken Sowards and Marge Sowards about Ken's father, Harmon S. Sowards by Kathleen Irving [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Kathleen Irving with Ken and Marge Sowards about Ken's father, Harmon S. Sowards. Topics include: Harmon's friendly personality and always having pockets full of candy to share; Harmon's place of birth and parents; Sowards extended family moving from Manassa, Colorado to Vernal, Utah. Being friends with the boxer, Jack Dempsey; Jack's visits to Vernal; Watching Jack in an exhibition match in Salt Lake City; Ken choosing to eat a hamburger steak when Jack took Harmon and Ken to a club for dinner; Ken visiting Dempsey' restaurant in New York while playing college basketball for the Uof U; Impressing friends and colleagues when meeting Jack Dempsey; Harmon's occupations in Vernal, including fifty-two years with Continental Oil Company; sixteen years on the Vernal City Council; a charter member of the Chamber of Commerce and Lions Club and member of the Draft Board; Harmon's membership in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; Ken's mother being a very loving person; and Harmon personal philosophy that "Service to your community, your state, your nation, and to God is the rent you pay for your room on this earth."