Mary Sanchez: Of Midwest stockyards and diverse neighbors: The roots of Ed Asner’s humanity
Ed Asner’s earliest memories were of the scorching Kansas summer sun.
And packing house workers, Depression era people who’d emerge onto dusty streets, their white work coats splattered with the blood of the animals they labored over.
My paternal grandmother could well have been one of the workers the future actor watched.
The Asners lived in the stockyards of Kansas City, Kan, across the street from the Armour Packing Co., one of several slaughterhouses operating then in the West Bottoms. It’s where my abuela worked during
