Robert D. Shaffer, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 29, 2002: Saving the Legacy tape no. 448 and 449

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ROBERT D. HAFFER PRIL 29 2002 middle of the state. But it so happens that one night after dinner my dad pick d up the milking pails to go out and do the chores and he had forgotten something and came back in and found that the rest of the Johnson family were having pie. So dad hung the milk pails up and went off down the road to a family by the name of West. The boys of whom he had known and were friendly with. And from there he went to Chicago following Floyd West. Floyd West was the oldest of the West brothers who, was quite a salesman. He could sell refrigerators to Eskimos. And he convinced my dad that the future was not farming; to come to the city. Well, dad worked for the railroad express for a couple of years and then decided he wasn't making enough money. So he was able to get a job with the Arrow Shirt Company and a shirt salesman. And he ended up in central Illinois where Vandalia is; that's where he met my mother. I have a sister, or did have a sister, who's two years younger. She died in 1992. My mother died when I was fifteen and my father's oldest sister, Aunt Addah, came to live with us. She had never married and she came and took care of my sister and myself. I was a sophomore in high school at the time. The next year Aunt Mary came. Well, going back, Aunt Maude was another sister whose husband had died in 1926. They lived in London, Ohio. But the two of them lived there until about 1928, when they moved to Whittier, California. Let's see, it would have been about 1934 when Aunt Mary came to live with us. The following year, Aunt Maude came and they raised my sister and myself and they lived there until Dad sold the home in about 1941. And Aunt Maude and Aunt Mary moved back to the home, which they had owned in London, Ohio. Now, what else do you need to know, Becky? Right there. BEC: That's interesting. Did your dad continue working for Arrow all those years? 4