William A. Redmond Memoir - Illinois Digital Archives

Q: Is this before you went in tb service or while you were in . . .
A: NO, 17,,was in - I was in the ~rvice. We became engaged before the war was declared
but then Pearl Harbor came alpng.
Q: What was her maiden name?
A: Ria*. ,
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Q: ~ nhow d had you met her or come . . .
A: IntWucred. At her home. A friend of mine knew same of her family and they bad a
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gathering or meaing and he took me over there.
SESSION 3, TAPE 6, SIDE 1
Q: Is she a Chicago person?
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A: Yw. (pause) (phone rings) Who's that? I
(taping stopped for telephone conversation, then resumed)
Q: If you were married then when you were in the service, did you folks set up housek+ping
right away in Ghicago or . . .
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A: No. 'came down to join me on Staten Island. We bought furniture and had . . . our
housekeeping quarters down there.
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Q: Can ytm hlTm a liM8 bit abont her family backgxound?
A: We11 she,was a schwlteacher. She majored in Latin and Greek. And fell victim the
Depreseion the same as everybody else, and people weren't looking for Latin and Greek
teachers. They were looking for typing and shorthand and that sort of thing. So she went
back to eiehool and learned shorthand and typing ad business mmohines. And ultimately
her qssignrnent was teaching business. Her father had been a teacher. One of her aisters
was 4 @tcher in the Chicergo school system. (pause) She was a lovely girl.
Q: (pause) So you left the service in 1940 . . .
A: Five.
Q: Then you went back to your - to the same . . .
A: Nb. 1 came back out and my firm had - the senior member had died. I had no place
to gol So' 1 got a job with,tEte Veterans Administration rating disability claims. They used
to hqve dfdility boards and .they were composed of one doctor, one lawyer and one'
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pe&m to try b evaluate the limitation of earning capacity for war injuries. And
I wa$' ondthPrt possibly a year.
Then. I got a job with the law department of Northwestern Railroad, doing ewntiall what
I ha& doae for the Pennsylvania when I went into the service.
And h~uering was pretty scarce then. And she and the baby were living with her fol
I ww living with my folks. And I lived in Austin and she lived in Rogers Park.
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