Oral history interview with Max Stewart and Patricia Lewis Stewart by Kathleen Irving [Transcript]

Oral history interview by Kathleen Irving with Max Stewart and Patricia Lewis Stewart. Topics inlcude: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins; and siblings; Growing up on a ranch in a nice big house with electric lights and running water; Getting his head stuck in the outhouse toilet; How Stewart Lake got its name; Enjoying ice skating on Stewart Lake in the winter and fishing in the lake the rest of the year; wearing racing skates; Fishing with cousins; Fish frys with extended family and neighbors; Max's near drowning experience; Doing farm chores; The effects of his parent's divorce; His mother's employment in the school lunch program ; Moving to a new place each school each year, icluding a cabin with a dirt roof; Attending Uintah High School; Playing football; Being too young to enlist in World War II; Testing for the Navy after graduation and receiving the second highest score in the State of Utah; Joining the Navy Reserves; Marriage and children; Joining the National Guard inorder to play ping-pong; Working five jobs at the same time to support his family and staying with the Post Office; Enjoying fishing and hunting; Joining the Jaycees and Kiwanis Club; Serving as Scoutmaster and Order of the Arrow advisor in Boy Scouts