O'Connor Woods resident Donn Emerson Church was born on December 19, 1925 and raised in Tracy.
He first came to Stockton after World War II. He inherited a business focused on air conditioning...
O'Connor Woods resident John Allen was born on January 24, 1921. He was born in Modesto and has lived in Stockton since 1952. He graduated Modesto High in 1938.
During World War II, he started flying...
O'Connor Woods resident Albert Smith was born on November 17, 1930. He was born in Sacramento and came to Stockton around 1941.
He worked as an electrician for Stockton Unified School District...
Una O’Farrell, 89, was born in Ireland. Her early childhood revolved around dancing. Her father had hired an old-school teacher, a little old man, to give personal dance lessons to each child in their...
O’Connor Woods resident Ruth Morgan was born on Oct. 27, 1934, in the Philippines, the youngest of six children. She was six years old when Japanese soldiers came and occupied her country and her city,...
At age 19, O'Connor Woods resident Craig Hubbard moved from Nebraska to California to serve his country during World War II. He was in the middle of studying for his journalism degree at University of...
O'Connor Woods resident Doris Meyer was born on July 23, 1927, in San Francisco, California. Meyer grew up during the Great Depression and was a teenager during World War II.
During this time, everything...
O'Connor Woods resident Ida May Sanders Jay, 86, was born into an unusual family. Her father, born in 1875, grew up with Native Americans, his own father being a Methodist circuit rider. Her mother...
O’Connor Woods resident Florence Rossmann was born on Dec. 6, 1919, in Tracy, California, where she lived until she was 15.
“[After that I] moved to Stockton, and I went to St. Mary’s High School...
O'Connor Woods resident Della Richardson was born on Nov. 15, 1942. She grew up as a migrant farm worker for the first 25 years of her life.
She went to a total of 12 different high schools, traveling...
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