Interviewer(s): J. Christy. Morgan City, LA

Affiliation: University of Houston/History International

Emmet Sellers was born in Abbeville, Louisiana on July 27, 1927. He was drafted by the U. S. army in 1947 but was later transferred to the Air Force as part of the 55, 000 troops "to pay back the Air Force" for troops "borrowed" during World War II. He attended Southern Louisiana Institute (now ULL) in Lafayette and then went to work as a basic engineer for the US Coast and Geological Survey. His father worked many years and retired from a Texaco gas processing plant in Erath. Emmet went to work for Texaco in June of 1950 as a deckhand. Several months later, Mr. Sellers was roustabouting and also worked as a pumper. He later became a production supervisor for Texaco. Most of his career was spent around Horseshoe Bayou and Morgan City, Louisiana. He retired from Texaco in 1986.