Back to Work

George and Sarah Shoop family in woodbury 1944

So after a few years we again went back, but this time we just couldn’t find a house to live in. We had to buy a farm. Dad and the boys did a lot of work on that old farm. While we lived there Jim, our youngest, 12 years, then had appendicitis. It was so cold and icy. Several times we started for the hospital and couldn’t get there. He fell out of a tree. He tried to make fire in the stove and burned his face. George Jr. was home then. It was so cold there. Then George got word from the railroad foreman that if he didn’t come back to work he would take his name off the roll. We had two weeks to sell farm and furniture, ready to go and they all wanted to go, so George knew a man looking for a farm. He went to see him. He bought it. People came to the house and bought our furniture. So there we were ready to travel again. This was in the spring. Well George Jr. and Blair had gone several months before us. They had a room rented in Los Angeles. Blair and Norma was married the day after we got there and they had a place rented, so the landlady where Blair and George Jr. lived allowed us to stay there until we found a place. Well this time we looked outside the city. We found in Garvey, bought the house ready furnished. There we had a garden. Jim had pigeons and rabbits. But it was a small house. We heard of a couple that wanted a smaller house, so we made a trade after we lived there a year or more. In the meantime, George got his work back in the railroad shops. George said the boss said that was the only way to get him back to work. He said the men were all glad to see him.

Dorothy, George, Sarah, Jim circa 1947
Dorothy, George, Sarah, Jim circa 1947

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