Oral History Interview with Marler W. Owen, September 29, 1989 Page: 2
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Owen:Fort Worth. Then I went to W. C. Stripling Junior High
School for what they call, I believe, nowadays the
classes from sixth, seventh, and eighth. Then I left
there and went to Jennings Avenue High School and left
there and went to Central High School--all these in Fort
Worth. My parents were then divorced, and my mother had
a little trouble with a person who had seemingly
individual ideas, so she decided that the best thing for
me was to be put in the Navy
When did you go in the Navy?
I went in the Navy on June 9, 1932.
Why did you decide to enter the Navy as opposed to one
of the other branches of the service?
I think the main reason was my mother (chuckle). My
parents, as I said, having been divorced, my mother
didn't feel that she could control me. I wasn't that
wild a kid, but I just did what the normal boys were
doing in high school. I dropped out in the tenth grade.
I was in the tenth grade when I dropped out.
How difficult or easy was it to get into the Navy in
1932?We had a little help (chuckle). It was a tough
situation to get in in 1932. But my parents had been
in Dallas, where I was born, and there was a Navy man
who was on recruiting duty at that time and lived next
door to us. My mother just fortunately ran across him2
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Marcello, Ronald E. & Owen, Marler W. Oral History Interview with Marler W. Owen, September 29, 1989, book, September 29, 1989; Denton, TX. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2137898/m1/4/: accessed May 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Oral History Program.