M. Dorene Wills Interviews

Wills shared “back then when you brought chicken or cow feed, they came in printed sacks. When Daddy got ready to get feed, Mom and I would go with him and pick out two or three sacks alike so we could make a dress.” [00:31:34]

Dorene Wills (right) at Donivan School eighth-grade graduation; Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, 1948 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas

#1: Dorene Wills (right) at Donivan School eighth-grade graduation; Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, 1948
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#2: Dorene Wills, age 2, 1936
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Dorene Wills, (front row, 5th from left) at Quilting Club gathering with her grandmother, Dora Kerr (back row, 4th from left); Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, ca. 1939 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas

#3: Dorene Wills, (front row, 5th from left) at Quilting Club gathering with her grandmother, Dora Kerr (back row, 4th from left); Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, ca. 1939
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas

Dorene Wills (2nd row, left), in Donivan School picture; Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, 1943 © Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas

#4: Dorene Wills (2nd row, left), in Donivan School picture; Mount Pleasant, Arkansas, 1943
© Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, University of Arkansas

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