Father's Employment

Where did your father go to work every day and what did he do?

My father worked as a guard at Delco Products. When the Depression came , he suffered the grief of unemployment, but determined that he would support his family and keep up his payments on our home. Many workers during that period turned to the government for support, but my parents preferred to bake bread and sell it from door to door. We girls helped with the sales ($0.10 per loaf). Mom and Dad would often get up at 2:00 A.M. to do their baking.

Dad returned to Delco after the worst part of the Depression had passed. But he took on a second job when we started our studies at Olivet Nazarene College. He became our church custodian and did such a thorough job of maintaining the church clean and beautiful that pastors of other churches said they were jealous of our pastor!