Moul, Esther (audio interview and transcript)

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Moul, Esther (audio interview and transcript)

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Moul, Alan (interviewer)

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Oral history interview with Esther M. Moul. Interviewed by her son, Alan Moul, on May 27 and 29, 2016 in Hart, Michigan. English language. Esther May Gilliland Moul was born in 1931 into a farming family located in Hart, Michigan. Her great-great-grandfather was the first Gilliland in Oceana County dating back to 1873 and the Gilliland family farm became a centennial farm in Hart, Michigan. She holds many memories of her life growing up on the farm: how they received their fruit trees from Hawley Nursery, stories of Dr. Munger who was known as the “Cherry King,” and life during World War Two. Esther graduated from high school in 1948 and went on to pursue nursing in Oak Park, Illinois at the West Suburban Hospital School of Nursing which was affiliated with Wheaton College. She married Leonard Moul in 1952 and worked at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids while starting a family there. They later relocated their family to the fruit farm across the street from her parents in Hart, Michigan and were able to raise their sons with the same agricultural traditions that were a part of their family’s heritage.

Date

2016-05-27/2016-05-29

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

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DC-06_Moul_Esther

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audio/mp3
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Sound
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eng

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Moul, Esther, “Moul, Esther (audio interview and transcript),” Digital Collections, accessed December 26, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/46474.
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