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Oral history with Ms. Varnell Homan
F341.5 . M57 vol. 746, pt. 1
Funding for this project provided by The Mississippi State Legislature, The Mississippi Humanities Council, The Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Biography
Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. After her husband became a pipefitter, she and her husband and children had the opportunity to live in many places and learn many different cultures. To make a living doing something she enjoyed, Mrs. Homan became a hairdresser; later she opened her own hairdressing school. Throughout her career, Mrs. Homan has earned forty- three sets of style licenses as she continued her training throughout the United States.
Mrs. Homan enjoys a close relationship with her children and is very active in her church, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church. She currently works in her own hairstyling salon.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Marriage
III. Starting a school
IV. Children's businesses
V. Claude A. McCaleb
VI. Traveling with pipefitting jobs
VII. Ponticola farming, 1938
VIII. John Peters' style of hair cutting
IX. Larry Summers
X. Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
XI. Changes in Tupelo
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Object Description
| Title | Oral history with Ms. Varnell Homan |
| Description | Oral history.; Mrs. Varnell Homan was born on February 5, 1925, in Mooreville, Mississippi. In 1936, the year of Tupelo's worst tornado, she moved to Shannon, Mississippi. In 1942 she married Elkin P. Homan, and they were farmers. To make a living doing something she enjoyed, Mrs. Homan became a hairdresser; later she opened her own hairdressing school. Mrs. Homan enjoys a close relationship with her children and is very active in her church. |
| Collection | Oral history of Tupelo and Lee County, Mississippi. |
| Date of interview | 18 November 1999 |
| Interviewer | Stephens, Kathryn. |
| Coverage (time period) | 1925-1999 |
| Resource type | Text |
| Format | Digital reproduction of a 15-page document. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Contributors | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Rights | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Contributing institution | Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Digital repository | University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. |
| Digital collection | Oral History. |
| File size | 248.377 KB |
| File extension | |
| Identifier | mus-coh.homanv |
| File name | mus-coh.homanv.pdf |
