Al Turrentine:
CLASS OF 1958
Montebello High SchoolClass of 1958
Montebello, CA
Al's Story
Al's schools include Montebello High School.
Al's interests include California State University, Fullerton.
More about Al:"TO THOSE WHO HAVE AN INTEREST IN MY BACKGROUND, I WAS BORN IN A LITTLE TOWN IN KANSAS CALLED GALENA NEAR ANOTHER LITTLE TOWN CALLED RIVERTON. I HAVE A TWIN SISTER SHE IS AN HOUR AND ONE HALF OLDER THAN I . WE MOVED FROM KANSAS WHEN DAD COUD NOT FIND WORK AND HE WENT TO CALIFORNIA LOOKING FOR A JOB BECASUSE HIS OLDER BROTHER LIVED THERE AND HE TOLD DAD HE WOULD BE EMPLOYED SO DAD WENT ALONE AND HE GOT THE JOB! DAD SENT FORMOM AND ALL OF US FOUR KIDS, MOMS BROTHER WENT WITH MOM AND HELPED HER ON THE TRIP WHAT AN ADVENTURE FOR 4 LITTLE KIDS! SO WE MOVED TO LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA. MOM WAS LOKING FOR BRO. REVA MEARS WHO WAS THE FATHER OF OUR BRO C.J. MEARS. MOM TOOK LIZ & I TO CHURCH ON THE "RED CAR" (AN ELECTRIC TRAIN) TO GO TO CHURCH! THE "RED CAR" HAD A ...Expand for more
STOP JUST 2-3 BLOCKS FROM BRO. REVA'S CHURCH ON HOLMES AVENUE. AFTER BRO. REVIE DIED IN 1947& BRO. WILLIAM SAUDERS ANNOINTED BRO. C. J. MEARS INTO THE MINISTRY. BRO. MEARS HAD TO RENT A SMALLER CHURCH TO CUT THE COSTS. BRO. MEARS THEN RENTED A LITTLE HALL ON BEACH STREET CALLED THE "TOWNSEND HALL". FOR MOM IT WAS JUST AROUND THE CORNER FROM WHERE THE RED CAR STOPPED ON FLORENCE AVE.( A BLESSING FOR MOM) AND WE HAD SERVICES THERE UNTIL 1949 AFTER BRO. MEARS FOUND A PIECE OF PROPERTY ON ASTOR AVENUE AND THE CHURCH HAD BUILT THE BUILDING BECAUSE BRO. JAY BRYANT WAS A CARPENTER AS BRO. ALAN JAY HIS SON AND BRO, ALBERT KANTOR AND OTHERS I CANNOT THINK OF RIGHT NOW. WE HAD OUR FIRST SERVICE ON ASTOR AVENUE IN 1949 AND WE WERE THERE FOR 12 YEARS UNTIL WE BOUGHT SOME PROPERTY ON SAN GABRIEL BLVD IN 1961, MORE TO COME. MOM & DAD WERE WITH BRO & SIS MEARS ALL THE WAY! PRAISE GOD!".
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