| Title |
Leah (Jo) Neilan, Salt Lake City, Utah: an interview by Becky B. Lloyd, April 12, 2002: Saving the legacy tape no. 439 |
| Alternative Title |
Leah (Jo) Neilan, Saving the legacy: an oral history of Utah's World War II veterans, ACCN 2070, American West Center, University of Utah |
| Creator |
Neilan, Leah (Jo), 1922- |
| Contributor |
Lloyd, Becky B.; University of Utah. American West Center |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
2002-04-12 |
| Date Digital |
2015-09-16 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States |
| Subject |
Neilan, Leah, 1922- --Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; United States--Naval Reserve--Women's Reserve --Biography; World War, 1939-1945--Women--United States--Biography; Veterans--Utah--Biography |
| Keywords |
Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service in the U.S. Naval Reserve; WAVES; Hunter College; Milledgeville, Georgia; San Diego |
| Description |
Transcript (35 pages) of an interview by Becky B. Lloyd with Leah (Jo) Neilan on April 12, 2002. This is from tape number 439 in the "Saving the Legacy Oral History Project |
| Collection Number and Name |
Accn2070, Saving the Legacy oral history project, 2001-2010 |
| Abstract |
Leah Jo Neilan (b. 1922) grew up in Cleveland, Utah. She joined the Navy WAVES in 1943 and served at Hunter College, then Milledgeville, Georgia, and finally San Diego, where she was the Yeoman for the director of the 11th Navy Waves. She was discharged in November 1945. 35 pages. |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
35 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s69k69gf |
| Topic |
Personal narratives--American; Veterans; World War (1939-1945); Women in war; United States. Naval Reserve. Women's Reserve |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019264 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k69gf |
| Title |
Page 7 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_slohp |
| ID |
1019234 |
| OCR Text |
Show L H (JO) ElL N PRI 12 2 2 BEC: Wow that is something. Up until when? JO: They didn't get it until after I left home. Well that was in th 40 . And people down there today have everything. BEC: available. JO: this story? BEC: I guess at the time you were pretty remote so a lot of that stuff wasn t Well, we were too far out for the electrical lines You can't believe Well, even up until the '40's, that just sounds different. So I guess you had an outhouse, probably. That's interesting. I shouldn't say that because my mother lived in a place where they didn't have running water. JO: BEC: JO: Where was she? They lived in Salt Lake, but they were so poor during the Depression. Well, and I don't remember the Depression much except the effects of it, and that was one of them, I guess. We built a new house but it really didn't get finished for years (it really wasn't unusual not to finish your house for years). We lived in the basement of the house until my high school years and then we finally got the top finished. We had a big orchard. I'm still trying to find out how many acres; I guessed fifty and my sister said, "Oh, no, we had more than that." So I've got to find out from my brothers how many. BEC: Yeah, that would be interesting to know, wouldn't it? JO: Yeah, well, my dad always said, "Don't tell anyone you're my daughter" because I knew nothing about farming. This man asked me if my dad was 6 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69k69gf/1019234 |
