Grant B. Morrell, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, September 11, 2001: Saving the legacy tape no. 408

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G TMORRELL B R 11 2 1 who was older he stayed with his father up in Kamas-but moth r br ught u back t alt Lake City and we've lived here ever since, technically. BEC: How old were you when you moved back to Salt Lake with your mother? GRA: Seven. BEC: You were seven. So you're just about starting elementary school, or you were in elementary school then? GRA: Well, I had. I got through the summer kindergarten, as they had it up in Kamas, and all the way through first grade, so that when I started school here that fall, we came right after school closed up in Kamas. I started the second grade in Longfellow School, the old Longfellow. It was on First A venue and J Street. BEC: Is there a school there now? GRA: No. It's the Twenty-first Ward chapel and parking lot, where the old school was. BEC: Oh. GRA: And then we moved up on Third A venue. Mother-Grandmother, my grandmother and Aunt Mary, had a nice apartment in a home and the upstairs was also an apartment. So when it vacated, Mother took us three kids and we moved in there with Grandma and Aunt Mary. But they were in their own apartment on the main floor. The basement was an apartment, also, but it was not always occupied. Sometimes the owner would have their children come and stay there for school a little bit. And Mother and us three kids were up in the top floor. And it was an enjoyable place. And I went through all of the rest of grade school at Wasatch and Bryant Junior High, for the two years, and then 2