Olive O'Mara, West Valley City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, June 22, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 569 and 570

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OLIVE O'MARA J 22 2 2 OLI: Yeah (laughs). It was an experience that doesn t happ n no . I think that, I wanted to become a doctor, although there were other thing I had a b nd toward . I remember I was excited about growing things in the yard watch them grow. And I u d to take- it makes me sick now- but I used to take the hens eggs and put them under the hen and every day break one to see how it developed. And I remember cutting up a snake to see what it was made of. I had this bend to be a doctor and to this day, I think the human body is one of the most intriguing things on earth. I respect it so much, it's hard to express. When you think of all the complications in one human body. To this day, I am thrilled with medicine. But the interaction of the hormones and the cells of the body, the body is, to me, the most intriguing thing I could ever conceive of. But I used to then want to know what's inside. BEC: How did it work? And what did it look like? OLI: Yes. And, of course, in those days, don't forget, if you wanted chicken for Sunday, you killed your chicken. Now Dad couldn't kill a chicken; Dad couldn't kill a flea (laughs). But Mother did. She didn't worry about that. During the Depression, we would go on Sundays to the various houses of Mother's four sisters. One Sunday they would have a meal and we would all eat there and then the other Sundays we would go to their houses and eat there. It seemed to work. During the main part of the Depression, a lot of people in Uniontown and all over the country killed themselves. They couldn't deal with this. They had had money, or thought they did. I remember the Playfords father in Uniontown killed his whole family and himself and his wife. A lot of people jumped out of windows and killed themselves in those days because of financial loss. Now, Granddad Osterwise was living high on the hog. He had this apartment building and a big 10