Black, Edwin Allan, 1907-2002

Allan Black (1907-2002) worked many jobs and eventually settled into a plumbing career.

Allan Black was born 28 October 1907 in Cortez, Montezuma, Colorado, to Edwin Zemira and Chloe Allan Black. He grew up in New Mexico and moved to Arizona in 1926. There he worked as a trucker for movie productions, for the Bureau of Public Roads, Flagstaff Electric Light Plant and the Arizona Power Company. He met and married his wife, Genevieve Lewis, in Flagstaff on 2 April 1929. His eventually settled into a plumbing career and moved back to Blanding, Utah. He died there on 5 February 2002.

Genevieve Mary Lewis Black was born 25 January 1913 in Prescott, Yavapai, Arizona, to Joseph and Vivian Lewis, the last of six children. She lived in Prescott until she married Allan Black and had four children. They later moved to Blanding, Utah.

From the guide to the Oral history interviews with Edwin Allan and Genevieve Mary Lewis Black, 30 May 1978, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections)