Interview with Lorraine Virginia Beasley Gilley

Interview with Lorraine Virginia Beasley Gilley

Autobiography

Draftees -- North Carolina

Events

Gilley, Lorraine Virgina Beasley, 1926-2011

War and families -- North Carolina

World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- North Carolina -- Surry County

Lorraine Virginia Beasley Gilley talks about life before and during World War II, and recalls the three years her sweetheart served in the war during which time they maintained their relationship by exchanging letters. She remembers saving the money she made working at Renfro Hosiery Mill to add to his service pay so they could open a garage where he used the training he gained as a mechanic in the army to support them once she quit work after getting married. Also present during the interview was Sherry, the interviewer's mother.

Gilley, Lorraine Virgina Beasley, 1926-2011

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1940s;

2009-10-12

Jessup, Jenny

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audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35543

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35543

2014-12-04

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Surry County (N.C.)

1:04:41 (sound recording)(duration)

10 pages(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina