Marie Elizabeth Houtz Interview, 2002.

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Marie Elizabeth Houtz Interview, 2002.

In this interview Marie Houtz discusses her childhood in England; her experiences during the first years of World War II; meeting and marrying a U.S. soldier; the journey to the United States aboard the Queen Mary in 1946; traveling to Montana; meeting new in-laws; and adjusting to life in Montana. (OH 2030)

1 Cassette tape(s)(55 minutes) Analog Transcript 21 p

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Montana Historical Society Library

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Montana War Brides Oral History Project

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In the summer of 2001 the Montana Historical Society Archives began work on the Montana War Brides Oral History Project. The project focused on the experiences of women who came to Montana as the result of marriage to a U.S. soldier. War Brides form a unique immigrant group within Montana’s population. Unlike many immigrant groups war brides traveled to Montana alone, came to live with people they had never met, and entered new lives without the comfort of an existing support system to ease the ...

Houtz, Marie Elizabeth, 1927-2005.

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