Lillian Thompson Interview Audio

00;00;00;00 - Unknown Interviewer:: Well.

00;00;01;18 - Unknown:: Of course they me right then.

00;00;07;11 - Unknown:: Oh.

00;00;10;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: Your full name is the more amazing I.

00;00;15;10 - Lillian Thompson:: The name Golden Rose from her golden rose lark.

00;00;26;13 - Unknown:: And Mark Kelly r l l.

00;00;29;22 - Lillian Thompson:: R l I h r.

00;00;34;24 - Lillian Thompson:: Your my husband.

00;00;36;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: I heard that father. I know right so that did up.

00;00;43;13 - Lillian Thompson:: Here here come very clear that I didn’t realize it. Take it up for.

00;00;48;02 - Unknown Interviewer:: Us to get up to get a nickname. Have you ever had a mixer?

00;00;53;15 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, in the L.

00;00;57;00 - Unknown Interviewer:: And what you’re for?

00;00;59;04 - Lillian Thompson:: April 2nd, 1931.

00;01;05;27 - Unknown Interviewer:: And your address here is to the Elk River.

00;01;08;23 - Lillian Thompson:: March 1st four four. Elk River.

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00;01;16;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: Where were you born?

00;01;18;22 - Lillian Thompson:: That. Well, I was born in Lewistown, Montana, but I lived there. Have.

00;01;29;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: And here her telephone number.

00;01;31;03 - Lillian Thompson:: 08 2633 0404.

00;01;37;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: Oh. What was your first residence in Idaho?

00;01;42;10 - Lillian Thompson:: We lived in Princeton, but all. I came back to my apartment.

00;01;51;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you came from Montana.

00;01;54;14 - Lillian Thompson:: To Moscow, Montana.

00;01;56;22 - Unknown:: Okay. Come here.

00;02;02;25 - Unknown Interviewer:: And what year did you come down here?

00;02;05;09 - Lillian Thompson:: 1956

00;02;09;24 - Unknown Interviewer:: In you’re almost 20 years.

00;02;11;12 - Lillian Thompson:: I know. Part of that year.

00;02;16;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: how did you travel?

00;02;18;07 - Lillian Thompson:: I traveled by car, and we had our truck in the, Google trailer behind there. Thank you. In one trip.

00;02;31;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: And who I what what part of who were your family?

00;02;36;06 - Lillian Thompson:: My husband and our three children.

00;02;42;10 - Lillian Thompson:: Harold and Marilyn. Came in here.

00;02;51;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: At, And my. So more children or Harold.

00;02;55;10 - Lillian Thompson:: That your whole computer science is the family.

00;02;58;26 - Unknown Interviewer:: That was there. All right, we wanna know, something about your mother. And what was her maiden.

00;03;07;06 - Lillian Thompson:: In, right.

00;03;10;25 - Unknown Interviewer:: I r a f.

00;03;12;23 - Lillian Thompson:: O r r r. And, where she lived in central Montana all her life because she put aspirations and dreams first we go. She was born just about 15 miles or she passed away. what is it that you’re today? All right, mate, I think she’s born. And maiden.

00;03;40;14 - Unknown Interviewer:: I mean, that was that was a time when I didn’t have any idea where. That was a mining town.

00;03;49;21 - Lillian Thompson:: And then she began.

00;03;56;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: I think the other mining town.

00;03;59;17 - Lillian Thompson:: She lived there. Her dad did like, you know, work in the mines. So you can imagine the rip roaring, you know, sorry for talent. Well, if she could November work, I told me I could go down to Earth County or down the main part of the street. There was. I have pictures, you know, of the old town of Lewistown.

00;04;25;24 - Lillian Thompson:: Just, you know, trail down that street.

00;04;31;01 - Unknown Interviewer:: you know, when she was born.

00;04;35;14 - Unknown:: In 64, 80.

00;04;50;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: I guess when they married that old, my father died.

00;04;53;13 - Unknown:: I ever find for.

00;04;57;14 - Unknown Interviewer:: Anyone around thinking that how old he was when I was born, you know, with my old lives far from the country. But we are 1890.

00;05;08;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Five, and she passed away in 1960. The.

00;05;18;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: You know, when she was married.

00;05;21;05 - Lillian Thompson:: She was married. Well, she was very polite. She was married. Now, I don’t know if she was married in 1950. I don’t really know.

00;05;32;15 - Lillian Thompson:: It was 1915. Like he was married in Rome state. Excuse me. That was your name. There? Married name? Before she married my father. But they were married in 1979. But they were married at Morristown.

00;05;57;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Thank you. Mary George Gilmore. I had seen.

00;06;04;13 - Unknown:: John. Car.

00;06;10;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: For dinner. Your father and your mother had any job? The occupation asked. Why did.

00;06;18;18 - Lillian Thompson:: In house? Well, later on, she worked there at the Burke Hotel. You know, is. Well, I guess she called chambermaid or whatever. You know, she work doing that type of work.

00;06;36;21 - Unknown Interviewer:: Most of her life. But she.

00;06;38;29 - Lillian Thompson:: Yes.

00;06;45;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: Okay. And in fact, your father was John Law, Robert Hitchcock.

00;06;49;01 - Lillian Thompson:: And he homesteaded in Montana and then took out his homestead in 19 six from the farm in. Oh, I would say he was. His dad was a wagon maker, but I my dad was good at blacksmith work. You could get his diamond welded in here, you know, you see him weld today, but he can get pretty darn well done together.

00;07;14;17 - Lillian Thompson:: And a home made things that we can buy. The 45 old of the. That’s a lot of steel. Really. But that’s what you could do.

00;07;29;13 - Unknown Interviewer:: when working for your.

00;07;35;00 - Lillian Thompson:: No. I’m sorry. He was ten years older than my mother. Was together in 1890. 1885. It must have been bragging. Oh, yeah. That.

00;07;52;03 - Unknown:: Oh, for sure.

00;07;59;17 - Lillian Thompson:: Thurmond read a book. I didn’t know you were going to ask me all these dates, or I got.

00;08;05;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: Out of her grammar book in 1885.

00;08;10;10 - Lillian Thompson:: Here, I can find my mother’s grave here. And he passed away in 1944. and he lived in Denton, Montana until, you know, two years before he passed away. Great move to have.

00;08;28;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: And he was born in death. No, no, he.

00;08;30;03 - Lillian Thompson:: Was born at, Harper, Iowa.

00;08;37;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: And then this little bit kind of did get. Mom can get you in here. Where?

00;08;45;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: I guess brothers and sisters.

00;08;48;10 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah. There was. My oldest. There was six siblings. And then I had a half brother.

00;08;59;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: Okay, could I have your sisters name?

00;09;02;13 - Lillian Thompson:: Kathleen. Mary. Do you want to live with my sister? And I want to. Syria. My one sister lives in Morristown. Here. Her name is Kearns.

00;09;18;13 - Unknown Interviewer:: In my town.

00;09;19;25 - Lillian Thompson:: I don’t no Katharine Katharine Hepburn. Yeah, but you are in there. And Helen.

00;09;28;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: Cecilia and and Stanford, I think. Brown. No. White rabbit.

00;09;35;02 - Lillian Thompson:: I she lives up here in Spokane.

00;09;46;16 - Unknown Interviewer:: You have two sisters, three years, and your brothers are.

00;09;51;23 - Lillian Thompson:: Here. Anthony.

00;09;59;05 - Lillian Thompson:: You’re one. Peter.

00;10;04;07 - Lillian Thompson:: And Joseph, who passed away just today. Black lives matter of ours. And my youngest brother, John Peters, was killed in a long time accident down in Portland in 1967. Not really.

00;10;29;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: All right. your husband, Harold August.

00;10;38;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: one over 19.

00;10;41;00 - Lillian Thompson:: August 16th. Right from the moment.

00;10;47;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: And where we were born.

00;10;49;06 - Lillian Thompson:: Greenfield, Missouri.

00;10;56;16 - Unknown Interviewer:: farming. Very.

00;10;58;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Very dangerous. Come on. Can.

00;11;05;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: You’re putting 1942.

00;11;09;26 - Lillian Thompson:: Let me see. 23rd, 19 and 23rd I.

00;11;19;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: what’s his occupation?

00;11;21;13 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, he worked a farmer. He was in the service for three over three years. And and then moved to Montana while he worked for us. Gypsum thing that makes the street grow. And then he came out here, died and went to work as a civilian. Could not to care.

00;11;49;05 - Unknown Interviewer:: To working?

00;11;50;07 - Lillian Thompson:: No. He had to retire because of him five years earlier. Retired.

00;11;57;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: Okay. And the children then left. He gave his name 32. What can you tell Harold?

00;12;03;05 - Lillian Thompson:: Buddy? They’re all married. Their families.

00;12;09;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: we’re with people. I’m.

00;12;10;15 - Lillian Thompson:: He was born in Morristown. They were born in the same hospital. But I was born for the children, so.

00;12;16;05 - Unknown Interviewer:: Okay. And what date?

00;12;18;13 - Lillian Thompson:: 1944. They see me? March the 2nd.

00;12;25;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: And we keep working.

00;12;26;17 - Lillian Thompson:: Here we are. Works in the furniture store up at Moses Lake. We work here. The Moscow Fire Company.

00;12;34;01 - Unknown:: For seven years. And here.

00;12;39;23 - Lillian Thompson:: You get a better job. And so you were in life. It was like a family affair. and his wife works down there at the store, and she helps make these drinks for the home. She went to school district to Gettysburg, and I go to the solutions so she could continue on with her work. You know, she could do steadier, because she broke out, you know, between nursing home.

00;13;08;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: And the concert.

00;13;10;08 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah. That’s right. And so she could play.

00;13;15;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you have another son.

00;13;17;09 - Lillian Thompson:: Girls here work.

00;13;24;03 - Lillian Thompson:: 24 years born. July. The 17th grade. 243. And the people? He works down here. The band in the pawn shop. Well, I guess the head boss. I don’t know your lumber company well enough. Dog. I got a larger part. I cannot furnish manager of the shop or something or other. Sometimes it happens. Office.

00;13;58;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: And your daughter.

00;14;00;07 - Lillian Thompson:: Marilyn. Well, you met her, Marilyn.

00;14;03;06 - Unknown Interviewer:: Her first. I kept thinking there’s something familiar about that. Back to back. I remember she was a kid from.

00;14;11;16 - Lillian Thompson:: Maryland, I heard.

00;14;13;05 - Unknown Interviewer:: And was she born here?

00;14;14;22 - Lillian Thompson:: And I was down here for over years. Pelton is the name. Marilyn Kirk.

00;14;25;25 - Unknown Interviewer:: And what was going on? Yeah.

00;14;28;22 - Lillian Thompson:: September 30th, 1949.

00;14;34;24 - Unknown Interviewer:: And she married.

00;14;37;16 - Lillian Thompson:: Here, here in Elk River.

00;14;40;08 - Unknown Interviewer:: Halfway. You’re doing other work? Yeah.

00;14;43;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, she work as a waitress when she, you know, when she got out of the school. And then she also worked as a nurse’s aide at the hospital, and she real good at that.

00;14;54;02 - Unknown Interviewer:: And children. Two children and the hospital.

00;15;00;12 - Lillian Thompson:: Oh, it must have lost. Oh, you’re.

00;15;02;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: Asking a lot of.

00;15;04;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Matter. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I’m good now. I, I a say is the children all graduated. I thought they. All right. Well we moved to Potlatch later on. Then we moved to law and I moved over here. So you know, I grew up in, So we’re here, back today, I think it over here. We were married.

00;15;29;29 - Lillian Thompson:: I think we moved over to the year in the 33 years we’ve been married. so that’s a lot of rooms right here. Yeah.

00;15;43;05 - Unknown Interviewer:: I how much school.

00;15;44;29 - Lillian Thompson:: I graduated from high school took me 13 years to do it, but.

00;15;51;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: did you ever work?

00;15;54;24 - Lillian Thompson:: I did housework, I mean.

00;15;57;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: Yeah, when I say, did you ever work that silly? And no housework?

00;16;00;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Work? No. I went out when I was a girl.

00;16;03;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you hire.

00;16;04;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Worked on that.

00;16;05;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: You earn money that.

00;16;06;09 - Lillian Thompson:: Way for $15 a month?

00;16;09;06 - Unknown Interviewer:: Yeah.

00;16;12;02 - Lillian Thompson:: Yep. There are boxes that.

00;16;14;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: I work with that included. You guys bought.

00;16;17;22 - Lillian Thompson:: More room, but you.

00;16;19;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: Work for $15 and spending money.

00;16;22;25 - Lillian Thompson:: And you used to get up at 530 in the morning or regularly.

00;16;28;00 - Unknown Interviewer:: Yeah, I’ve done some there. Really earned it.

00;16;32;12 - Lillian Thompson:: And here is work breakfast.

00;16;34;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: And then come on.

00;16;38;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: What time did you get to bed again?

00;16;40;05 - Lillian Thompson:: What would you say about nine. And you were up to get around here and get everything done. And then if you had a bigger crew, like, you know, like longer, but usually 930 back then you had to go to have a long day ahead. Yeah. And I did for school, I did ironing and housework for the doctor. Then people there that did that.

00;17;08;05 - Lillian Thompson:: I also had a job working for the school through the and get the NRA rifle, the NRA National Youth. Yeah. See that’s where we earn their money when we’re in school. Like my sister and I think she was a grade ahead and I was very behind. So that put it both in the same class. So we both got to.

00;17;32;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: Work that or kind of work like that.

00;17;36;17 - Lillian Thompson:: Oh that was no, I made curtains for the homework real quick. Did she did typing in work for the teachers, you know, but I did, you know, the other type of work, anything they wanted to do.

00;17;50;21 - Unknown Interviewer:: Oh, this is a program for the government. And you here to work. And it requires the school number. We’re signing.

00;17;59;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Anything. If you’re happy for a sign girl hand, you know, to help them out, even to file and books or fiction in the library. Anything. At least, you know, it consisted of all types of work. Except that I didn’t do any secretarial work after that.

00;18;17;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: I, so this is a way to help families get these kids that are in a profession.

00;18;24;22 - Lillian Thompson:: yeah. In the 30s. Yeah. That was when things were pretty rough.

00;18;34;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: Let’s see now, you mentioned several. Yeah. Any other special skill that you picked out to say, well, why did you have to work for something to like? Well, I tried cooking.

00;18;46;28 - Lillian Thompson:: I to apply for a job back in Montana and had a good job lined up for the school, but we were moved out here, and I worked down here for a year, and I worked the district over here cooking everything. So, you know, this was here to start kindergarten for two years in high school. I could be here.

00;19;10;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: So if you had an affair.

00;19;12;15 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I, you know, I would cook for the kids in the back, but they you.

00;19;23;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: Out have a job. You can right.

00;19;28;04 - Lillian Thompson:: On the range. We had everything to do. I mean, as far as work, you did whatever come along. I was cleaning the bucket here all day or, you know, working in the house. So they all figured my dad out with the machinery. Anything. You know, it consisted that you did everything on the farm. You didn’t.

00;19;47;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: You didn’t have any advantage. But in a moment.

00;19;49;23 - Lillian Thompson:: You know, you get out of it always. The girls had to work the same as the boys. If there, they’re needed supplies. We went and did the same thing, you know, over.

00;19;58;17 - Unknown Interviewer:: The weekend.

00;19;59;07 - Lillian Thompson:: On cracker. Yeah. Where we are versus them to drive more. Right. Why you have to be able to have morses.

00;20;11;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: And a lot of.

00;20;11;29 - Lillian Thompson:: You know, you start doing like you said. So when we were raised we had to do everything. I don’t think they they on the farm that I haven’t done. So we all ran. Right. today we’re down on a job like that. But then you did it because your parents couldn’t hire anyone. You know, they couldn’t afford to hire and parents.

00;20;36;25 - Lillian Thompson:: At that time, there was no money to hire people.

00;20;41;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: Well, next, you feel pretty self-sufficient. You didn’t have to go out and ask for stuff. I would get that.

00;20;47;06 - Lillian Thompson:: You know, that.

00;20;49;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: That, like, I have a pretty good feeling. You have to take care of yourself that, you know.

00;20;55;17 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, the whole family, you know, work, family, own, you know, was able to go ahead with things. And we never, you know, we never had the most money. The world never had the best clothes. But we married and.

00;21;09;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: Got by and and nothing.

00;21;11;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Yes. Well, we never left before. My mother always can love some food. You know, me being poor, chicken. And we always had a big garden, so you had to get up and go in the garden, you know, in the garden and everything. So there was no. I guess it always helps to do,

00;21;35;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: What other interests or hobbies? Tracking. Oh, I like crocheting.

00;21;42;20 - Lillian Thompson:: And I do so quite a bit for that. I’ve kind of lost my mind. I guess. Some people are so into Marilyn or something.

00;21;52;00 - Unknown Interviewer:: You can’t be very happy.

00;21;55;12 - Lillian Thompson:: And I’ve quilted. You know, the women do their prints, too. And their personality, their learn to pull in. Those women are really particular there. But there’s 30.

00;22;06;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: Is.

00;22;07;03 - Lillian Thompson:: Just so.

00;22;07;26 - Unknown Interviewer:: So Yeah. Pretty.

00;22;12;28 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah. They’re real.

00;22;14;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: Good pictures. do you have any other, things you do just for fun and.

00;22;21;14 - Lillian Thompson:: For carving to work with the people that.

00;22;23;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: You participate?

00;22;24;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah. Oh, yeah. I feel that something I don’t know what is the fence? Is that one room divider that looks good to me so that.

00;22;35;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: Yes, I haven’t qualified for skill as much as anything ever. anything else you can think of right now? That one garden.

00;22;48;03 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I have a garden with, with my garden.

00;22;55;16 - Unknown Interviewer:: let’s see. Now I’m going to ask about your class room. There’s two sides here.

00;23;01;11 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I belong to the Princeton Club down there. Could talk right here because you can hear me. So we’re here. We have our homemakers club, our regular homemakers club here, Elk Grove. But I don’t get involved with things. You know, my husband doesn’t work at the VFW or the, or better, you know, the foreign veterans of foreign wars.

00;23;27;23 - Lillian Thompson:: And so I don’t get to get involved with the country or anything like that.

00;23;31;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: No surrender. I don’t like going back. I mean, coming back for, Have you ever had any special award honors.

00;23;42;06 - Lillian Thompson:: Or ribbons or anything? I to get involved. This kind of. But I’m.

00;23;50;01 - Unknown Interviewer:: Not sure. Are you sure?

00;23;52;12 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I used to belong, you know, go to Catholic church all the time, raise the kids as Catholics. But if they get older, why, they kind of felt they had to do their own way. And I said, well, that’s your choice. You go if you want to. We can relate to them. And they don’t have a Catholic church provided church, their community church.

00;24;19;03 - Lillian Thompson:: But I just don’t. I guess I should and shouldn’t feel.

00;24;23;26 - Unknown Interviewer:: Learning right at the moment. That isn’t.

00;24;26;12 - Lillian Thompson:: Important.

00;24;29;02 - Unknown Interviewer:: okay, then I’ll get into some of the other. That’s the personal Davis. And if you think of anything else I could go along, you’d like to go back about that, but I’m sure, one of the things we’d like to know is how you feel about comparing to after the rural area right here. Are there advantage here?

00;24;49;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, you have the peace and quiet that the two of us living here. It’s then going to have to leave the last five years because my husband has been in the best developed. For an operation for years building, I don’t know, getting to into the doctor in the wintertime is kind of the problem.

00;25;12;08 - Unknown Interviewer:: hum. Oh, it’s not all.

00;25;14;22 - Lillian Thompson:: no, I if you’re in good health. Yes. This is a real nice place too. And then the snow last year the snow did get in. And you know, I like snow, but they got get up there on the looking out the windows and you have to look up. See. Very like look out here and nothing that’s. No no you can just imagine.

00;25;38;17 - Lillian Thompson:: And we live on a hill.

00;25;40;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: And it’s taken.

00;25;41;24 - Lillian Thompson:: You back in just about nine months. We get snow and ice rolling on covered and it usually stays down until, well, last night. You know.

00;25;55;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: I know it was near here. Merry go round everything when you come.

00;26;00;21 - Lillian Thompson:: So you realize you think it. It gets to year after.

00;26;04;17 - Unknown Interviewer:: So the right now you’re aware of some of the different variants.

00;26;09;15 - Lillian Thompson:: You have right now. But really this is a real nice pound. The if you’re real good health. You know what, I, I don’t think any number of the older people really enjoy it here. But I think hard at school we don’t go to dances, we don’t take part in any of the.

00;26;31;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: Community.

00;26;33;28 - Lillian Thompson:: Because he doesn’t feel, you know, he has that Parkinson’s disease. Self-conscious about that? Oh yeah. So you like to get out, mingle with people?

00;26;49;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: Is that just relaxing here can be very interesting.

00;26;52;18 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, we moved out here because we just thought it’d be great happening here with work.

00;26;58;06 - Unknown:: At that time. so that’s why we get.

00;27;05;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: Correct. Do you know any women who live in an urban area? Big city. Would you? How would you compare your live there?

00;27;14;04 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I have a sister law move down was saying.

00;27;17;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: That.

00;27;17;24 - Lillian Thompson:: For your.

00;27;21;14 - Lillian Thompson:: And she doesn’t like this country at all. She runs everything right at the touch of her finger, you know, press the button here, button there. Everything is smart enough to date, but she doesn’t like everything’s up here because we live according to.

00;27;38;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: Would you like to live like she can? No.

00;27;41;26 - Lillian Thompson:: I don’t like. Yeah. I wouldn’t change my life for all of California.

00;27;51;01 - Lillian Thompson:: No, I don’t think I would care if it moved down there. I just don’t care for that. I’ve been through Los Angeles, but as far as, like, a baby.

00;28;02;15 - Unknown:: No, I would never.

00;28;08;13 - Unknown Interviewer:: how did, when your children grew up, how was their life different from yours when you were growing up? I wasn’t about to say. Well.

00;28;20;07 - Lillian Thompson:: Our children more or less had to work, but, you know, we made of get jobs and help with the income. I didn’t feel it was right and that I could grow up and not have have something to do, do. And then when they were in school, when you’re going to in high school, they earned their own money and got their own.

00;28;40;22 - Lillian Thompson:: The college. But Marilyn Monroe was terrible, but she had a job, but she could, you know, live it up and not have to work for what her.

00;28;52;14 - Unknown Interviewer:: Different from other children in the neighborhood.

00;28;56;07 - Lillian Thompson:: I think her voice. yeah. I think our boys got more of a big job than other boys. Really? I think they did what they could best known that I think they were. And then the other big thing, because a lot of the parents had the money to give their children where we just didn’t have. You know, where my husband worked for all his life, for the girls.

00;29;25;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, you get paid when they stay home in the long.

00;29;30;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: They sound like you probably would have required them to have responsibilities even if you’d been able to.

00;29;35;28 - Lillian Thompson:: Afford. Yes. I feel that any child growing up could have responsibility and part of their development that I mean that to me. I think that’s what’s wrong with for most the children today is the parents give giving $10 per hour going out and find something to do. Now this is I have the same situation with my sister up there in Spokane, though they her children were very different than ours and they have more income.

00;30;08;24 - Lillian Thompson:: But her husband had a better job and a steady income. But I know understand what the difference. But really, in comparison, our children turned out just as good, if not better. Since I was on the money.

00;30;21;06 - Unknown Interviewer:: I think I could have maybe some advantages for having had that experience at work.

00;30;26;03 - Lillian Thompson:: If they went to college, their children had the chance to go to college for our boys. Did they learn what they they’re building? Their jobs today? They learned the hard way. Okay. So I guess working at it. So I feel like in a long way, they didn’t need a college education to get where they are today.

00;30;51;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you feel like they did as well. Yeah.

00;30;54;02 - Lillian Thompson:: I think our youngest son.

00;30;56;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: Is in the Caribbean.

00;30;57;20 - Lillian Thompson:: He started out when he was 14 years old. He took Mastercard down the filling station and he came from there, try to work on up, change, big trip cars and all night. He liked mechanics. They worked on their own car and overhauled their cars, and they grown up in both. The boys are real good at mechanic. They don’t take their cars into a garage that works out to them.

00;31;28;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: So that’s very good. So you know, today you’re going to, pretty much the way you were. You grew up with this kind of experience where.

00;31;40;16 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah, we I didn’t know, you know, we had to learn things at hand and we had to learn to drive when we were real young. I remember when I was only about six, I’m only been about 6 or 7 years old. I go out in the field with my dad. See, we are no.

00;31;57;27 - Unknown Interviewer:: Ma’am.

00;31;58;07 - Lillian Thompson:: He truck, you know, and it’s the time that you put in the collection early to get it to go on where we get this thing of going inside before I get to the gate, all they’re doing shut off the keys. But I graduated from the field and cabins I could connect. I got to, I couldn’t shift and or anything.

00;32;19;15 - Lillian Thompson:: All it did was just start putting over here. well, how many kids did this kid do? Things like that?

00;32;30;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: Right. They have to get a license in order to learn.

00;32;32;14 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, this is through a club field.

00;32;37;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: all right, some of the things I’ve already talked about. Some things you just spent working or what did you have? Recreation. What’d you do for recreation?

00;32;47;22 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, we belong to both. My sister and I belong on the basketball team. You know, for four years through high school. And then we cook baseball, and we had a regular club to school. That team, you know, at over at and Stanley. And they had rooms and horses. So we weren’t lacking for things to do.

00;33;12;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: but you did have time for records here. An opportunity.

00;33;16;07 - Lillian Thompson:: The girls did that. Not all our. Oh.

00;33;20;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: They didn’t have.

00;33;21;06 - Lillian Thompson:: Lots and lots of no barber equipment was good with the help. So that’s girls who would.

00;33;28;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: my first year.

00;33;31;12 - Lillian Thompson:: That that was pretty scary for the boys. Be careful for school. Now, if there’s something to be done, like they would take money from school when those girls are. Okay, but we lots of time, you know, to go into basketball games or something like that. We had to ride horses five miles. So seven something different. Yeah. You know, five miles from school.

00;34;00;13 - Unknown Interviewer:: Did you ever walk over here?

00;34;02;19 - Lillian Thompson:: And many a time we walked home from school. We didn’t have to walk in the mornings to go to school, but we walked in.

00;34;10;23 - Unknown Interviewer:: With someone taking in.

00;34;12;03 - Lillian Thompson:: Or in our day. I was in school, not working years as volunteer. sled came in. Sled? Yeah.

00;34;22;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: And then you’d walk home.

00;34;26;10 - Lillian Thompson:: One morning, the whole family, except my younger brother, they, you know, we were then my younger brother Johnny was just a baby. And then going to school, my dad grade school, train and I bet missed that train. It just go over the track and the train, like, for about a mile before they put that cross. And I said, I’ll never forget that.

00;34;56;02 - Lillian Thompson:: But all of us were in that little jumper slide. You know, it could be the pulling any of that but a crock just a minute on that rail or I, the whole family’s been killed. There was a Caucasus birthday, I birthday it was. I remember the weather came down this year. It was kind of just, you know, down into the, for the railroad track.

00;35;22;16 - Lillian Thompson:: I don’t know why I ran the track and during because.

00;35;26;07 - Unknown Interviewer:: You.

00;35;27;05 - Lillian Thompson:: Can’t walk up the banks there, you know, and you could see it coming. So I think he thought he had plenty of time. but he didn’t either. He just. I was that carried. After that, every one of those kids would go climb under the bed and the train would go to go it it just it scared of the death.

00;35;47;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: To come on the back of the day. Yeah. What did you think when your children were growing up? What kind of recreation?

00;35;55;19 - Lillian Thompson:: Or. They were involved in school. Okay, well, while we got some up in school in the summertime. See, back there, mostly they had everything, you know, everything was free. Bet your swimming lessons and everything. All you have to do is take children to the park, throw them in different so the boys could go up until they got into Boy Scouts and then they well, we got to work in a fair and too much schoolwork.

00;36;31;05 - Lillian Thompson:: So we had to go off that they didn’t go. I don’t know how far they would to go. That’s one thing. I always kept them very, very high level, very good. I would go things to do, going for, doing things around town. So they were always kept busy. Area. If you.

00;36;57;01 - Unknown Interviewer:: Feel. Doing thing is a family like camping or gardening or.

00;37;04;05 - Lillian Thompson:: Or we would grow. We belong to one club back there. Mom and I belong to those back there. But every 4th of July the whole family would get together. We broke the bank up in the mountains and had our pick, which they don’t do nowadays.

00;37;21;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: Are kind of fallen out.

00;37;23;29 - Lillian Thompson:: Or we would go to someone’s home for Thanksgiving. I would cook the turkey and this woman would cook the rest of the meal. And I go up there and have everything.

00;37;34;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: You know, the whole family here.

00;37;36;28 - Lillian Thompson:: Here would do things like that, you know, different families get together and serve or furnish different parts of the meal. After that. They don’t do that anymore. The fellowship you did the correct way. We couldn’t afford the first old meal.

00;37;53;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: So, what’s it did you run into things like that in Idaho and Kenya? That kind of thing?

00;38;02;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I think this group, the crew was more like the people I knew when I was a girl. They were more down to earth people, and they were hard to figure out what they were as far doing things for people that think this community is so wonderful, you know, and they will help people. Now there happens to be a flier or something.

00;38;29;21 - Lillian Thompson:: They will go ahead and make that thing. You know, they go somewhere and do things for the family. Or if there’s someone past the way, they’ll fix a big dinner. And so the kids, they’re they’re always helping. They help from different organizations, you know, in giving, scholarships and things like that. Yeah. Thank you for everything. Thank you.

00;38;53;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Done. So I mean, that’s that community is I miss really I really didn’t have that part. So it’s a different type of people that up here.

00;39;05;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: Oh, it’s, black.

00;39;09;04 - Lillian Thompson:: here. Very support.

00;39;10;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: Are there more I’m a natural here.

00;39;13;09 - Lillian Thompson:: And we’re, we’re here about three different groups, you might say. And you just.

00;39;19;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: Unless you’re in.

00;39;20;09 - Lillian Thompson:: One of those. You and we were partners in the reception. We got to move to this town by county. The mayor lived up here. Well, we came up here, but son, both passed on, and there’s three of them. I think one of we had one and three run into their five little kids. Come over here. Six. Two little babies, and they helped us move up here.

00;39;45;12 - Lillian Thompson:: And it was in April, a snow storm. And what did that mayor do? But go down calm and cook. Come up here to get a car off the road so he could get up the hill, which he had a room to get up the hill. The mayor was here and I said that I got a reception here. It is so good.

00;40;04;16 - Unknown Interviewer:: You didn’t feel very well?

00;40;05;21 - Lillian Thompson:: No, I didn’t feel very welcome. So maybe I have a little to really be friendly with the people in our area.

00;40;16;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: Yeah. My car. Your family?

00;40;18;29 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, if we were going to serve the mayor here, we have to do beautification around our back. And we didn’t come here of our own choice. We couldn’t afford to buy a place in spotlight. They were too expensive for them. But the savings we had and, you know, it’s kind of disappearing your husband out of work and being sick and have to move and then to get a reception.

00;40;46;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: Every time you need a laundry.

00;40;47;29 - Lillian Thompson:: That’s right. Yeah, that’s what I did.

00;40;50;19 - Unknown Interviewer:: And.

00;40;51;24 - Lillian Thompson:: And we moved on a Sunday and, we had wall-to-wall furniture in this house with no bigger home. This is a bedroom here. And we tore out this whole. But we have furniture stuff in here. And our son made this rug that day, and we put a little baby seat on the bed. We had no place to put him on the floor because we cleaned the house before we moved it.

00;41;17;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Still, in the summer, there is snow on the ground.

00;41;22;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: Tracking six.

00;41;23;11 - Lillian Thompson:: 12 kids and then it didn’t have a porch on me. That was the kitchen door right there by the refrigerator.

00;41;32;06 - Lillian Thompson:: So you can imagine how kind if they would leave me alone at 430. No family. So we made a little garden. Yeah.

00;41;43;03 - Unknown Interviewer:: That’s right, that’s my apartment.

00;41;44;27 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, it was just like, I’m going to be here. I’ll let you know what it. That’s all going back and forth.

00;41;51;01 - Unknown Interviewer:: It always gets dark and confining the winter time. That’s right. In the dark.

00;41;56;20 - Lillian Thompson:: Yes, we do.

00;41;57;20 - Unknown Interviewer:: Now,

00;41;58;20 - Lillian Thompson:: Collecting a lot more light.

00;42;05;29 - Unknown Interviewer:: what are some of her favorite color? Are can going to your husband.

00;42;10;10 - Lillian Thompson:: And maybe what we would do boxing my baby and of.

00;42;16;22 - Unknown Interviewer:: which have a long courtship period.

00;42;19;18 - Lillian Thompson:: No. About three months.

00;42;21;06 - Unknown Interviewer:: And then made it to Bang Creek back then, you remember some of the reasons why he got married?

00;42;32;09 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I don’t know, five years. We enjoyed the same. He liked to fish. Well, I guess for my hobby you could say fishing and hunting and things like that. Because we enjoy those, you.

00;42;43;24 - Unknown Interviewer:: Know, gardening, sharing. Very interesting. We. You’re working. At that time.

00;42;50;19 - Lillian Thompson:: I was working at a ranch.

00;42;52;16 - Unknown Interviewer:: You are you were there, you were.

00;42;54;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Hands working.

00;42;55;09 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you continue to work as you got married. Know what to expect?

00;43;00;25 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I was working on my horses, right. You know, helping them. And then we got married because you’re working in the background. So I knew I could have been, you know, from. Yeah. After having never met. You there, there. We’ve been married. I think in November I went down the road in Mexico, and then I went to work for these cleaners.

00;43;28;04 - Lillian Thompson:: And I also worked at a photo shop. To make enough money because they only made a.

00;43;34;06 - Unknown Interviewer:: But that’s what he was doing when he went.

00;43;37;02 - Lillian Thompson:: To the service here.

00;43;39;13 - Unknown Interviewer:: So you went right along with the Army or airport?

00;43;43;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, it was the Army Air Force.

00;43;45;12 - Unknown Interviewer:: Or Air.

00;43;46;01 - Lillian Thompson:: Force. They separated, you know, since then they made.

00;43;49;28 - Unknown Interviewer:: A different branches, service and you work and supplement and get married and traveling around for high.

00;43;58;26 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, everything’s high, you know, living on the army base. Why? Why everything that’s kind. So I worked down there, live down there for nine months. Then he was back overseas.

00;44;11;15 - Unknown Interviewer:: So he couldn’t have you come back to your family.

00;44;16;07 - Lillian Thompson:: Come on.

00;44;16;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: Mother’s there, I never lived, come and see. Your old son was born in 44.

00;44;24;08 - Lillian Thompson:: He was born while my customers overseas. I have. He was 18 months old before he dad ever so, So I know they live it out already. Have your been gone?

00;44;41;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: For quite a while.

00;44;43;08 - Lillian Thompson:: It was a long while.

00;44;45;04 - Unknown Interviewer:: Waiting to go overseas.

00;44;46;18 - Lillian Thompson:: We run over to England and it’s open. Frank. So we spend about, well, I think like 15 years overseas down our, service. They had no choice. Then they had to go back.

00;45;08;17 - Unknown Interviewer:: And you stay at home and help on the ranch? Yes. I have gotten married over here. And when he got back, then we went to work at the farmer.

00;45;22;16 - Lillian Thompson:: Yeah, we went to the other place a short time after where? He worked down at the filling station. For how many? That could work. We could go to the right military. I went out there for two years.

00;45;38;18 - Unknown Interviewer:: What? How did you decide to come to Idaho? Yeah.

00;45;42;00 - Lillian Thompson:: Well, I had a brother here. I mean, you woke up this morning to be such a big money dealer to my husband. Decided that he could try long to get into big money, which turned out to be the same. No. That’s better. So it was more expensive. I think, than it was really. I don’t think really we made respect to him was that they long had a few years before.

00;46;16;10 - Unknown Interviewer:: When you decided to make a move, would you share in that situation? Was it something that you could get?

00;46;23;18 - Lillian Thompson:: Oh, well, I was, my husband, usually when he said he’d move, I, I moved to big Guy, and I didn’t argue with him, which I should, because, like I said, I had a job with the school back there. I was on as the second cook back there in Montana. So I had a steady job lined up for the year.

00;46;47;01 - Unknown Interviewer:: But he started there’s more opportunities.

00;46;48;28 - Lillian Thompson:: For him, better to come up here to.

00;46;51;11 - Unknown Interviewer:: Go. And the whole family picked up.

00;46;54;02 - Lillian Thompson:: So we moved.

00;46;56;25 - Unknown Interviewer:: And it was pretty hard getting started here.

00;46;59;20 - Lillian Thompson:: When I’m in first place, it was hard to find a place to live. I said if I had all the homes I’ve cleaned up since we’ve been married by the, you know, to move into somebody else’s place, you’ve got this.