Maurice Prescott was named for Manuel’s brother who was killed during World War II. “Her father was a sharecropper, and also drove a school bus,” Prescott said, “convenient for transporting such a large family.” “We always had something to eat,” Manuel said. “My mother was a great cook. We had a garden. She baked bread and kept some for us and sold the rest.” She was in her 20s when her parents divorced. He moved to Westlake and died in 1956. “I really missed my daddy when he left,” she said. All the children worked to help pay for the family home on Moss Street after the divorce.