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Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: Part I: Interview with Lavinia Stone Murray (Supplied title)
Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Lavinia Stone Murray was born in 1917 in Kentucky. She moved to Minnesota in 1940 and married in 1941. Her husband was drafted into the U.S. Army, where he spent the next three years. While adjusting to being a single mother and living with her in laws, on a daily basis she dealt with rationing, shortages, childcare, and worrying about her husband in the war zone. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The news of the attack on Pearl Harbor; the draft and the adjustment to war time; living with her in laws; being a single mother with her husband serving in the Army; segregation in Kentucky compared to St. Paul; moving to Sioux City, Iowa to be near her husband's base; work environment in a department store and as an elevator operator; husband's return home and search to buy a home.
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Holding Type: Oral History - Interview
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Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 42 pages transcript
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