Lowell S. Flamm, Pleasant View, Utah: an interview by Winston P. Erickson, February 14, 2000: Saving the legacy tape no. 183 and 184

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w MM R year at Utah tate. And that November ju t befor Pearl Harbor my fath r a kill d in a hunting accident. After the funeral I came back to school fini hed the quarter and went home. The first thing I did was I wrote my mother a check for two hundred dollars. She later told me that if I had not given her that two hundred dollar check she would not have been able to keep the family until the state probate had been completed. So my father had some kind of inspiration then, the way he had given me that college money. WIN: So you weren't able to return? I 2 1 LOW: I got a job immediately working in the bank in Billings at the First National Bank in Billings. And I worked my way up from the mail boy up to the head bookkeeper in a year. Proof manager is what they called the job, but I relieved the head bookkeeper when she took vacation that year. My mother's roots were in Utah, and her family was in Utah, so she decided she wanted to get back to Utah and get her kids back to Utah to grow up in Utah. And by that time, my brother-in-law, Paul Bahen and my brothers, Ronald and Le Verl, were both in the service. My brother Le Verl belonged to the same guard unit I was in, and he had taken his test to become a lieutenant. So they called up his unit, and he was in the service. My mother could see no reason to stay in Billings anymore. WIN: Now was,this your older brother? LOW: Yeah, my older two brothers. My younger brother, Bryce Flamm, is four years younger than me, and eventually became a Utah state senator. So, he's pretty well known in the state. So, my mother decided that she wanted to go back to Utah. So we all jumped in the car. She sold our house. She didn't get a good price out of it, but she sold 19