Oral History
Identifier:
09.6.1
Alternate Identifier:MS 373
1942 – 2009
Interview date:April 14 2009
Interviewer:Kathy Bradford
Description
During World War II, Francell Boman's mother was an active volunteer with the USO activities at Bushnell Military Hospital and at the Armory near their family home; her father ran the local food freezing operation, essential to the war effort. As a child, Francell was able to help in both places and told about her experiences. Her family took in a boarder who became a close famiy friend. She remembered the first Indian students at the Intermountain School, which occupied the military hospital after the war, some of them hired by her parents to do yard and house work. After the school closed in 1984, Francell sold candy in a sports complex housed in one of its vacant buildings. She discovered a mural painted on a wall of that building by internationally-known Indian artist and sculptor Allan Houser. When the building was set to be torn down, she campaigned successfully to save the mural.
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