Oral history interview with Elizabeth Moody Crandall Gale, 1986 March 26, 2006 March

Gale gives some of her family's history and tells how her father, Francis Winfred Moody, helped settle and design the town of Thatcher, Arizona. She talks about her early life in Thatcher taking care of her siblings and grandmother. After marrying Myron Hamilton Crandall, Gale moved to Gilbert in 1917 where they farmed for several years, raised a family of five boys, and were active in the Mormon Church. Gale describes life in Gilbert and Mesa including going to movies at the Nile Theatre and dances at the Mezona. She talks about some of the hardships of doing laundry, dealing with hot weather, making clothes and making a living. She also mentions the tragedy of her first son dying. Gale talks a little about her grandparents coming over from England after joining the Mormon Church. She describes what a funeral was like when her grandfather, a Mormon bishop, died when she was a young girl.