Chandler, Annie

Interview 104a : In a short 1954 interview with Clyde Thompson, Annie Chandler reminisces about her early life in Diboll. Her father was involved in Southern Pine Lumber Company's Diboll mill starting in 1895 and Mrs. Chandler spent the rest of her life in Diboll. She married and raised her children there. She remembers getting off the train in Diboll before there was a town. Mrs. Chandler's son, O'Hara was a longtime company executive, and two of her daughters, Rhoda Faye and Finney, worked in the office.