• Age: 71
• Interview Date: 11/24/1986
• Interviewer: Kelly L. Keister, Northern Illinois University
• Interview Length: 90 minutes Sit Down Interview
• County: Kane
• Mary Stark was born in Aurora, Illinois in 1915 and grew up on a farm. In 1939, Mary married Harry Stark and together they have farmed in Illinois and California, raising livestock, managing a dairy farm, selling eggs and growing grain and they have no intentions of retiring from farming.

Stark Family in Model T, circa 1915