Collene Riggsbee Rogers - Other trades (clip)
Interviewed by Kathryn Wall on March 11, 2023
Collene Riggsbee Rogers: It was his passion. He did everything. He was a licensed electrician and he was a carpenter. Upstairs in the building is where he had his workshop where he made his cabinets and stuff. And I guess he did whatever needed to be done because he was actually doing all of the plumbing, cabinetry, and electrical stuff for the Tate houses that he was building.
Kathryn Wall: How did he pick up all those trades in all those different areas?
CRR: I think reading books, the same as my husband used to do. He would read books to figure out how to do stuff. But that is what he did because I think they ended at 8th grade at Orange County Training School where he went to school. So he didn’t go to college because was working. He got married and he had started having us, so he had to work. So initially he was working for the laundry and when he stopped that was when he started working for himself.
