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Register, Glenda, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR11
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary This interview with Glenda Register [GR] covers her story about living in New Orleans in an old area of town, the Lower Ninth Ward. She was a family oriented person and kept mostly to herself in her neighborhood community. Her time was spent working and in church and related activities. Other than that, she was with family or at home. She and her family shared family events together. Most recently they’d begun to have meals together monthly generally around birthdates. This was something...

Smothers, NIcole, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR12
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Nicole Broussard Smothers talked about her life New Orleans. She was pleased with her work environment and the community she and her husband shared in the legal arena, as they are both attorneys. She talked about the comfortable routines they had for their son and the plans they made for their next child.Nicole was not at all prepared for her life being turned upside down and now they struggle to get by with no assistance from FEMA and help from her mother. She and her husband...

Holnes, Darrel, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR13
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Darrel Holnes is a University of Houston student for his second college year. He was born here in Houston and raised in Panama City by his Panamanian parents. Aside from visits to the United States, moving to the New Orleans, Louisiana to attend Loyola University would have been his first time living in the United States since he was two weeks old.Darrel told me the story of how he was so very excited to attend Loyola University and how he had spent his time in New Orleans, on...

Brown, Cedric, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR14
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Cedric Brown is a twenty-one-year-old man who lived in New Orleans and stayed through Hurricane Katrina. He tells his story about how he and his mother decided to stay and in New Orleans despite the Mayor’s mandatory evacuation dictate.He told how they were calm at first. His small family had gotten together at his mother’s home where they’d planned to wait it out. Thinking that nothing much was going to happen, they settled in to having good family time together. However, what...

Trotter, Esther M., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR15
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary : Esther Trotter [ET] and members of her family evacuated from New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. She initially wanted to stay home, but because of the young children in the family they left the city, going first to Atlanta and finally to Houston. ET shared that her family participated in the New Orleans traditional activities like Mardi Gras and Jazz Fest.She said that her family that lived in New Orleans went in various directions for the storm but that her immediate family...

Magee, Pamela, 20 November 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR16
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 20 November 2006
Summary Pamela Magee [PM], age 37, told me the story of her life in New Orleans one filled with too much work, deaths to violence and worry for her remaining children’s health. She lost one son five years ago to violence in the streets of New Orleans. The majority of her family didn’t want to leave so they stayed in New Orleans through the storm.Pamela told of how her family had to evacuate and walked from their home in New Orleans East to the University of New Orleans [UNO] Lakefront...

Kraus, Larry, 2007

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-SS-SR17
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2007
Summary Larry Kraus [LK], age 46, is a Katrina/Rita survivor from Kenner a small city connected to New Orleans, Louisiana. Larry was born in Florida, was brought to Algiers, Louisiana (New Orleans, West Bank) by his parents, where he grew up with his twin sister, another sister and a brother. He left New Orleans for a good job in Houston at age 23.Twenty-two years later, he worked really hard to get a good job to return to New Orleans to be closer to his parents who were having health issues. He...

Hampton, Dianne, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-TA-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Dianne Hampton [DH], age 55, is a Katrina survivor from the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Louisiana. She begins the interview with a few words on the friendliness of her old neighborhood. She talks about how she got her family together before the storm. She then describes her storm experience: waking up in the middle of the night and seeing the house surrounded by water, evacuating after a police officer warns them of the overflowing of the canal. She describes her Houston experiences:...

Craig, James Martin, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-UC-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary James Martin Craig [JC], age 53, who survived Hurricane Katrina, is from New Orleans, Louisiana [NOLA]. He begins his interview with details of the schools he attended, his military career and his employment background. JC remembers the crisis he and his wife faced prior to the hurricane and having to make a decision of whether to evacuate or stay based on this crisis. Devastated at the thought of leaving his wife behind in her present state, JC began his more than fifteen hour journey...

Hatcher, Patricia L., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-UC-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary

Patricia L. Hatcher [PH] is thankful for the opportunity to share in the project. She grew up in the uptown area of New Orleans with her parents and eight siblings. PH has many memories of her child in New Orleans and describes some of her family’s traditions. She gives insight of her travel from New Orleans to Katy, Texas where she now calls home.

Fournette, Brenda H., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-UC-SR03
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary

Brenda H. Fournette, a native New Orleanian, wife and mother of two children shares her experience of growing up in a Christian environment in New Orleans. She remembers many of her family’s traditions and opportunities for family gatherings. She reflects on how close she and her family are and how God has brought them through this time of separation since Katrina.

Thomas, Tina H., 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-UC-SR04
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary

Ms. Thomas talks about her life growing up in New Orleans and her many struggles to survive everyday life trying to make ends meet. She recalls how the younger generation in the family kept everyone in contact with one another though their knowledge and use of their cell phones. She believes her family is highly favored by God, and it is that faith that has kept her family together and strong.

Whittington, Jennifer, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-UC-SR05
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary

Ms. Whittington grew up in the city of New Orleans and remembers many opportunities she and her family shared during family gatherings. She was unable to leave the city because of transportation issues and had to be rescued after being submerged in rising waters for fifteen to seventeen hours. She is thankful to God for her two sons who because of their level-headedness and calming spirituals saved her life.

Ysrael, Ruven Melchezedek Ben, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-VT-SR01
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Ruven Melchezedek Ben Yisrael [RY], age 49, is a Katrina survivor from New Orleans. He briefly describes his [Mid—City] community in positive ways, talks about riding out the storm in a neighborhood that was spared flooding, but that suffered wind damage. Talks about helping neighbors and then evacuating to Gonzalez, LA; Baton Rouge, LA; and Atlanta before coming to Houston around January 2006. Talks about the need for NO to have a “regular Mardi Gras” in 2006, and then compares Atlanta to...

Nguyen, Quynh-Nhu, 2006

 File — Reading Room Computer: 1, File: SKR-YLU-SR02
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2019-021, Surviving Katrina and Rita in Houston Project Records / Project Interviews
Dates: 2006
Summary Quynh-Nhu Nguyen (QNN), age 17, is a Katrina evacuee who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. She lived in a small, friendly neighborhood called Algiers and attended Edna Karr High School, where the majority of the students was African American. QNN’s experience is very unique since she is the only girl in her family along with nine brothers. QNN stated that the hurricane brought her family closer since they had to stick together. She is a devout Catholic, and she loves to be involved in the...