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| Research Note | Pictured are Vance Hurt and Wife, Beatrice Hoffman, Barry Co., MO.
Vance Hurt was born February 7, 1918, near Golden, Missouri, the youngest child of Thomas Durward Hurt and Ada Olive (Burris) Hurt. He was given no middle name or initial. When he was born, his sister Lillian had already gone to California. His mother was almost 42 years old. Vance's memories included many moves within the area in Arlington, Riverside, and Pasadena where they settled into rented houses. Vance grew up in public school, working and playing at Sally Ramsey's ranch with his Ramsey cousins, Liz, Phyllis, Charles, and Thurston and Uncle Charlie Ramsey. Vance has stories to tell of Jackie Robison and his brothers because one of the rental houses brought his into the neighborhood where the boys played and fought together. Lillian acquired a private hospital in Salinas, California, and brought Vance up there, taking responsibility for him. She sent him to Salinas Union High School. There he had some contact with his dad's cousin Grover Garland Hurt and his children, three daughter, Barbara, Phyllis and Mildred. Vance's last year in high school was at John Muir in Pasadena, California, and he graduated in 1937. It was at the height of the depression and Vance joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. He as sent to Pine Grove, California, to Camp Trimmer near King's River and to Camp Tuna, all in California. Later he signed up for the regular Army and was sent to the Presidio near San Francisco for training and assignment. In the early forties, he was sent to Seward, Alaska, to help build up Fort Raymond. Three and one-half years later he was on his way to California from Alaska for reassignment there. On his way he stopped in Seattle where he met Beatrice Hoffman. She had come west from Winona, Minnesota, and was working for the U.S. Treasury Department. They married in 1944, September 9, and lived in Everett, Washington, and finally, in Seattle. Vance worked for the U.S. Post Office for 27 years. In his high school years he acquired the nickname of "Ted" after Ted Lewis, whom he loved to mimic. |
| Date Taken | Not Dated |
| Resource | Family Photos |
| Submitted by | Data and photo submitted in 2009 by: Steve Hurt |
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