Gma book - For print - 20 stories, 11 font, subtitles (75 pages)

What did your father
do for a living? Did he
enjoy it?
WRITTEN SEPTEMBER 14, 2019
I
n Pritchard, when daddy was a teenager around 12 or 13 he found a job at the
drugstore in Chickasaw with Mr. McMillan, the pharmacist. He started as a soda
jerk and worked his way up to assistant pharmacist before eventually purchasing it
from Mr. McMillan and running it until he retired.
Daddy felt lucky to have found that job at an early age and to be taken under Mr.
McMillan’s wing, because his mother had died of a stroke when he was about 6
years old, and his father simply disappeared one day after that - which is still a
mystery to this day.
We later learned that he might have actually left and started another family
elsewhere in a far away state.
However it occurred, his father disappeared, leaving him with only his older sister
and her husband to care for him. He knew at an early age he needed to make his
own way. Thanks to Mr. MacMillan he was able to do that.
I know he enjoyed what he did and I think it was because he felt good about serving
the community.
He was certainly well thought-of in our community. He was a respected man,
known for his good work and was eventually asked to serve on the city’s first
council when it was established in 1946.
Another thing about daddy’s work was that it allowed our family financial security.
We did pretty well compared to a lot of families thanks to his drugstore business,
especially during the Depression.
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