New post on my MySA.com blog:
Over a century ago, members of my maternal grandmother's family relocated to the Houston area to work in a sea turtle cannery. Shortly after WWI, my grandparents met at a fig canning plant in Pearland, where my doughboy grandfather was a manager. In the early years of their marriage, the couple worked in Gulf Coast canneries in Alvin and Highlands. Later, after my grandfather went to work for Brown & Root, he helped Bert & Frances Jamison--a wonderful couple who'd serve as my surrogate grandparents after my grandmother and grandfather passed away--launch a popular canning business. (More here)
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