Maria Fraser Interview, 2002.

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Maria Fraser Interview, 2002.

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In this interview Maria Fraser discusses her home country, Hungary; experiences during World War II; meeting her husband, Austin Fraser; her courtship and marriage; coming to the United States; first days in Montana; and the impact of vermiculite mining and asbestos on her husband and the community of Libby. (OH 2000)

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Libby Montana Oral History Project Oral History Project

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Fraser, Mariam.

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Maria Fraser was a Hungarian native who married an American soldier during World War II and came to the United States in 1947. Because her husband was a county commissioner in Libby, Montana for over nineteen years after the war, Mrs. Fraser became involved with the local environmental concerns and was a very active volunteer environmental advocate for many years. She organized many letter writing drives and petitions to try to protect the wilderness areas of northwestern Montana, northern Idaho...