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Interview with Eva L. Groshong [Sound Recording 02]
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- 1981-06-18 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:28:26
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Eva Locy Groshong, nee Eva Locy, was born in Goldendale, Washington, in 1896. Around 1916, she and George O. Hayden were married; they had one child and later divorced. In 1921, she remarried to Fred H. Groshong. During World War II, she worked as a welder at the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington. After the end of the war, she worked for J.C. Penney and moved to Gresham, Oregon. She died in 1996.
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Tape 1, Side 2. This oral history interview with Eva L. Groshong was conducted by Amy Kesselman in Gresham, Oregon, on June 18, 1981. In this interview, Groshong discusses her early life on a farm in Goldendale, Washington, her marriage history, and her work as a fruit packer and teacher. She describes how she came to work in the Kaiser shipyard in Vancouver, Washington, during World War II and shares her experiences as a woman worker. She talks about the dangers of the job, about the people she worked with, and about her daily activities during that time. She also discusses her husband's health and her activities after the end of the war. She shares her thoughts about the women's liberation movement and about secular government.
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- English
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- Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
- Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
- Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
- Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
- Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
- Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees
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- Kesselman, Amy Vita, 1944- (Contributor)