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Noffz Family On The Move
My show and tell item for
my family migration object is a favorite photograph of my Mom as a
child in her hometown of Jerome, AZ with my uncle in 1948. She is
two years old in the photo. The history of the migration of my Mom’s
side of the family is brief. My mother and my uncle did not know
from which international location my mom’s family originated from.
All that my Mom is able to pass along to me is that she knows that
the family had migrated to Arizona from Oklahoma in the early
1940’s. My grandfather was following the work and had heard of
opportunity in the relatively new state of Arizona. My Grandmother’s
family all lived in Arizona at the time. My grandfather worked as an
equipment repairman for the mine in Jerome until it closed in 1949
and the family was forced to move to Phoenix. I was born in Phoenix,
AZ in 1972. All of my Mom’s siblings except for my Mom migrated to
Sacramento with my grandmother during my childhood. She stayed to
raise a family in Scottsdale with my dad. |
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