An interview with Dorothy Cordier / Dorothy Cordier ; Sandra Dehner-Wheeler, interviewer. 2007.
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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.
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Dehner-Wheeler, Sandra,
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Born on March 12, 1939 to Frederick and Mona Lutes Dehner of Lincoln, Ill. This interview gives Sandy's reminiscences of her early years while her father was in the U.S. Army fighting in the South Pacific. Sandy talks about how her father's mobilization affected her mother, Mona Dehner, and the three young children her mother was caring for in Lincoln. Her father Frederick was deployed to Bougainville, leaving Mona with three children and no steady income except the allotment that Fred sent home...
Cordier, Dorothy.
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Born Dorothy Vitavec in Canton, Ohio on Oct. 21, 1919. She married George Cordier on Sept. 24, 1941. George was driving a bus at the time in Canton. By Sept. of 1942 George and Dorothy were parents, and in Sept. of 1943 George was drafted into the Marine Corps. He went to basic training at Parris Island, S.C. while Dorothy stayed at home with their son Richard. Dorothy lived at home with her parents and worked as a waitress in the bus depot while George was overseas, surviving on her pay plus th...
Cordier, George A.
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Born in Brackenridge, Pa. on Nov. 22, 1917, where he grew up. As a young man he moved to Canton, Ohio and was driving a bus there when he met and married Dorothy Vitavec on Sept. 24, 1941. By Sept. of 1942 George and Dorothy were parents, and in Sept. of 1943 George was drafted into the Marine Corps. He went off to basic training at Parris, Island, South Carolina while Dorothy stayed at home with their son Richard. George started the war as a signal corps wireman in the 3rd Joint Assault Signal ...
