Ora Mae Sorensen Hyatt, Orem, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 29, 2004: Saving the legacy tape no. 671

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TERVIEW WIT 0 TERVIEWER IS BECKY B. LLOYD. T LEGACY: ORAL HISTORY OF UTAH'S WORLD TAPE NO. 671. BEC: This is an interview with Ora Mae Sorensen Hyatt at her home in Orem, Utah. Today's date is June 29, 2004. This is part of the Saving the Legacy project, and my name is Becky Lloyd. Ora Mae has agreed this morning to tell us a little about herself, and then when we get to her war experiences, she's going to read a history that she's written up. So let's start, Ora Mae, with when and where you were born. ORA: I was born in Taylor, Texas, on the 22nd of October, 1922. I was the fourth girl of my parents. My father was there because of his work, he was the telephone manager in the small town of Taylor, Texas. My parents were approached by the LDS missionaries and joined the church and then they were really ostrasized by their friends and other townspeople. They decided they would move to Utah to raise their children. My parents decided they didn't want to raise them where no one would speak to them. They moved to Utah and I grew up in the little town of Manti. I was only three years old when they bought a home there and my parents lived there the rest of their lives. I went to school in Manti, graduated from high school, and then I attended Snow College in Ephraim for two quarters. But I wanted to go into nurses training, and that's another story. I really wanted to be an air stewardess, and that was because I received a book one year for Christmas called, ''Jane, Stewardess of the Airlines". And. I wanted to be a stewardess. That sounded so exciting to me, and I wanted to travel. I looked at the map of the world and thought I would like to visit those places, because I grew up never leaving Manti until I was out of high schooL I thought if I could be an air stewardess, then I could travel and