Oral History Interview with Hugo Werner, April 30, 2010 Page: 2

                                
HW: It really was. His business was primarily in ice plants.
You know, not the store stuff, but gigantic ice plants.
EM: You used ammonia as one of the refrigerants, I think, back
then. Those big old --
HW: Yeah, they still do. Yeah. And --
EM: And your mother was a homemaker?
HW: Yeah, homemaker. The only sibling I had was my sister.
Sister [May?] Josephine Werner something else, and she was
about six to seven years older than I am.
EM: Okay, so you were the baby?
HW: Yeah. She died in about 1963, I think it was, having been
hit over the head with her son -- by her son with a hammer.
Not nice.
EM: Oh my goodness. What a tragedy?
HW: Yeah. So I had no siblings after that. And [didn't have?]
no relatives. Anyway, before long we left Providence and
went to --
EM: Well now so you moved from Boston to Providence, right,
when you were like one year old?

HW: Yeah. At about seven or eight years old, moved to
Manchester, Connecticut. And there I went to school
through grammar school and high school, and graduated just
by the skin of my teeth. I was 414th out of 415.

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