Where I Live: Woman's History In Arlington Heights Dates Back To Parents' Love Of The Area

Arlington TX

06 February, 2022

6:09 PM

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By Cristian ArguetaSoto, Fort Worth Report February 6, 2022 By Juliet George My parents' families migrated to Texas in the 1850s and 1870s. My mother and father met and dated while attending Grapevine High School, and both attended North Texas State Teachers' College (now the University of North Texas) during the early years of the Great Depression. They went their separate ways. During World War II, my mother found work that she loved with American Airlines. My father began teaching at William James Junior High School in Polytechnic in the late 1930s, married for the first time, completed courses at an evening law school, and – interrupted by war – enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served as an officer aboard a ship in the South Pacific. The war and his first marriage ended; he recovered and reunited with my mother, and they married. Because my father's postwar teaching assignment was at W.C. Stripling Junior High School, he had invested in an old frame apartment building on Mattison Avenue, and so they chose to live in Arlington Heights. They came to love it. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.