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

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Title Oral history interview with Ken Sowards and Marge Sowards about Ken's father, Harmon S. Sowards by Kathleen Irving [Transcript]
Creator Sowards, Harmon S.; Irving Kathleen
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2001-06-08
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-05-02
Spatial Coverage City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html
Subject Basketball; Chambers of commerce; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; City councils; Continental Oil Company; Dempsey, William Harrison, 1895-1983; Hamburger steaks; Lions Club (Vernal, Utah); Personal narratives; Philosophy; University of Utah; Manassa (Colo.); New York City (N.Y.); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah)
Description 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."
Collection Number and Name Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 9 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6bmdrh1
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2535937
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bmdrh1
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