Folkema, Dorothy (Interview transcript and video), 2009

Smither, James (Interviewer)

Dorothy Folkema was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1922. She left high school after three years and went to work in a factory. She met her future husband, Harold Folkema, in 1939, and they were married in 1941. When the war started, she quit her job to protect her husband's deferment status, but he was drafted in 1943 and wound up on Omaha Beach on D-Day (see his interview in this archive). She had a child to take care of by then, and discusses different aspects of home front life while her husband was away.

2009-10-27

Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

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