Lillian Howell lived through the 1929 stock market collapse, which happened 79 years ago this week. Howell, who was 10 at the time, recalls the desperate move her family made to survive after her father was laid off.
Howell’s father, Charlie Hannabass, worked at the Kroger grocery in downtown Cincinnati. When the Great Depression cost him his job, “we didn’t know what we were going to do,” Howell said.
So the family made a tough decision: to pull up stakes and move to Virginia, where they had relatives who, they hoped, could help.
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Lillian Howell lived through the 1929 stock market collapse, which happened 79 years ago this week. Howell, who was 10 at the time, recalls the desperate move her family made to survive after her father was laid off.
Howell’s father, Charlie Hannabass, worked at the Kroger grocery in downtown Cincinnati. When the Great Depression cost him his job, “we didn’t know what we were going to do,” Howell said.
So the family made a tough decision: to pull up stakes and move to Virginia, where they had relatives who, they hoped, could help.
Read or listen to it all.