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HH: And what school did your children attend when they arrived in Philadelphia?

LI: My oldest attended the West Philadelphia Huey School in West Philadelphia. And the rest, the two, now only there's about four years' difference there, so just the oldest was attending school at that time until they attended the kindergarten. And then the grade school was Huey School, I remember.

HH: The name of the school was the Tuey School?

LI: Huey, H-U-E-Y, yes.

HH: This was in West Philadelphia?

LI: Yes.

HH: Your one son attended, but as your children grew up, did you remain in Philadelphia?

LI: We remained there for, I imagine, I think it was eleven or twelve years there.

HH: In West Philadelphia?

LI: Yes. And my husband worked for Westinghouse. By that time the strike was over, and he worked for Westinghouse.

HH: By this time he was working as an engineer?

LI: Yes. And then in later years, after nine years, he changed over to Atlantic, and he worked there as an engineer also.

HH: The Atlantic refinery?

LI: Yes.

HH: And your children, doing that, there's twelve years in which you lived in West Philadelphia, where they eventually became the age of going to school.

LI: Yes. My oldest attended Bartram High School in West Philadelphia. And then the rest of them went to Huey, and then on into high school West Philadelphia High School.

HH: West Philadelphia High School or Bartram?

LI: Yeah, Bartram.

HH: And what did they do after they finished high school?

LI: Alan attended the Philadelphia Museum, College of Art. And that year, my husband died, and Donald was ready to enter college. He went to Eastern Baptist College in Wayne, Philadelphia.

HH: Was your husband suffering from some kind of health condition?

LI: Yes, he was.

HH: And what kind of condition?

LI: Well, he had high blood pressure, and it had affected his kidney, but he's still working for Atlantic Refinery until his death. Before that, after I think it was in 1954, we felt that we had to move to a place where the children had more room to play. And living in West Philadelphia, there isn't any park or any place where they could play. So we moved to New Jersey in '54, and my husband died in '58.

HH: Let's see. So your other children, they were a little older at that time, weren't they? By the time you moved to New Jersey?

LI: Yes. Alan had graduated, and Donald and Norman and Willie attended Palmyra High School, and Barbara attended the Spring Garden grade school in Palmyra.

HH: I see. Do your children live in this area now, around the Philadelphia area?

LI: Yes, my daughter lives in Pennsauken, and my third son lives in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and my second son lives in Virginia. And William, my, youngest of the boys, he's in the army, and he's living in Colorado.

HH: Your oldest son, who is no longer alive, what kind of health problems did he have?

LI: He died of a heart attack.

HH: It was similar to your husband's heart condition?

LI: I imagine it would have been the same condition, yes.

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