Orrick, Harold

Harold Orrick was born in Temple, Texas in 1934, on a sharecropper farm. At the age of six, the farm house burnt down, my family and I was forced to move into the barn. The only thing I can say is we had a roof over our heads, even though you could see daylight through the joints of the 1 x 12 board walls. But luckily shortly after that my grandfather offered our family the opportunity to move to Fort Worth, Texas, to help manage an apartment house on Washington Street. The reason I mention all this, is to let you know how I ended up in Fort Worth, Texas. That gave me the opportunity when I fi...