Longing to return to the “liberating prospects” of motor racing, Dean was scheduled to compete at a racing event in Salinas, California on September 30, 1955. He played on the baseball and varsity basketball teams, studied drama, and competed in public speaking through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. His overall performance in school was exceptional and he was also considered to be a popular student. Unable to care for his son, Dean’s father sent the boy to live with his sister Ortense and her husband, Marcus Winslow, on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana, where he was raised in their Quaker household. She died of uterine cancer when Dean was nine years old. In 1938, she was suddenly struck with acute stomach pains and began to lose weight quickly. The family spent several years there, and by all accounts, young Dean, who was an only child, was very close to his mother. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician, Dean and his family moved to Santa Monica, California. James Dean was born Februat the Seven Gables apartment house at the corner of 4th Street and McClure Street in Marion, Indiana, the son of Winton Dean and Mildred Marie Wilson.
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