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0-6 Introduction- oral history of Dorthy Ann Knaeble. 7-l 0 The reason why I choose this candidate and why it isn't the normal oral history. 11-49 Genealogies- Begins with her great grandparents, the Rushtens. Her grandparents were the. Smiths'. Her parents Myrtle Smith Diering and Albert Diering who were originally from Iowa and moved to Mirtnes:ota. :50-60 Her dad's parents had lmmigrated from Germany and had 9 children. in Annendale Minnesota. 66-75 Didn't have stories to share about racial segregation, she was not a racist. 76-81 When she was a young she would spend summers working with the Indians and peel pulp wood. 82-85 Childhood memories- She thought of her childhood with the fondest of memories. 86-98 Remembers working hard peeling pulp wood while she took her baby along in a box. They would sen the pulp wood to the mills. 99-103 Her father had a chicken farm when she was little and they would sell the eggs. 104-111 She had 9 brothers and sisters- 5 boys and 5 girls. She was the third oldest 112-119 It wasn't easy raising 10 kids when all they had to sell was chicken eggs but her father was also a blacksmith and made money that way. Family alc;o raised a garden for personal use. 120-122 Can remember that at times they had little to eat and would have potato soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 123-126 Fondest memories ofbeing a child were the freedom a child had and the summer days they spent swimming in Sugar Lake that was near their home 127-129 Her daily chores usually consisted ofhelping out on the necessary. 130-133 She only attended school up until the 8th grade only because they could not afford shoes and transportation for all the kids 134-136 Marvin the 3rd from the youngest was the first one in the family to graduate from high 137-144 The funniest social events she attended were bam dances, she loved to dance. 145-150 Remembers coming home from a dance one night and thought they'd steal some apples off a neighbors tree but were scared when they heard someone following them and they ran all the way home. She later found out that the person had been her mother. 151-167 She re.rely spoke of any true hardships mood, but when she did she laughed She told of the time their neighbor gave them her old high heel shoes and she cut off the heels to wear to school. 168-174 Very optimistic person and didn't want to dwell on the hard times. 175-177 In her teens she moved in with her grandparents for economic purposes, and she worked in a motel and that is where she met Merle (her husband). 178-179 When she first saw him she thought he was so very handsome. 188-194 They used to go to dances and he did not know how to dance and so he would wait out in the car until she was done. She, finally taught him to dance when she caught him out in the car necking with another girt 195-202 When they were first married they lived in a tar paper shack. 203-209 meat that they would can store the cellar along with some canned 210-213 She always thought that if people went hungry it was there own fault for not planting r-·,-~ one not a lot but son1eti:JLine;. 214-219 Merles dad would come over and help himself to the and would often have to go him to ask him for some it He would also cash Merles paycheck sometimes too. 220-225 They spent some time in a logging camp where he logged and she worked in the cookhouse. 226-229 When they moved to Oregon she had a ruptured appendix which took an the money they had to pay for bills. 230-238 Had to move back to Minnesota for the winter and lived in a one room shack and really had to scratch to eat. 239-246 Made an their own butter and she began canning when she was young. 247-256 1941 they moved to Blye Oregon, she was 23 at the time 257-258 They moved out West on twenty dollars. 259-265 Rationing of war stamps- she remembers how they had to be careful. They had stamps soe•~mcauy for buying and her and her husband had to forfeit theirs so that their 2 girls would in t."te bottom of their shoes. 266-269 her oldest daughter, left out on the back porch and a dog got them up. were tocome 270-277 Making the margin was much easier than butter because it came in a tub that was essentially lard and an they had to do was stir it up and put food coloring in it 278-283 1st indoor bathroom was in 1947 in Ivory Pines Oregon and they had to use the Sears catalog for toilet paper. 288-294 She gave the kids a bath once a week by heating a big tub of water and have them get into it. 295-302 Using the old irons, they would have to heat on the stove. 303-318 It was quite a rew years before they had running water. 319-328 Recalled having to use the slop bucket a toilet on cold because it was too to go outside. (This is when they were back visiting :in Minnesota) 329-344 Entertainmtent was better back then. 345-355 First time they listened to the radio was when Harry Truman was elected. 356-65 Moved to Pondosa California in 1947 for several years and they were the happiest times. 366-74 Time was consumed with daily chores from morning until night. 375-77 Didn't like being social with anyone but her own family. 378-99 Once a week she would do the laundry and it would take the entire day. 400-08 Oldest daughter, Nettie would help a lot when she was little at 7 years old she was cooking dinner old wood stove. 409-12 She was married :in she was 19. supper 430-39 they moved out West she all kind ofberries to and make jelly. 440-50 baked all her own She would make her own bread, she ren,der€ld. the fat from animal fat and stored it to use as lard. 451-62 She would only buy the essentials that she couldn't make at home at the store (ie milk and foods were a treat). When she came West she bought her first loaf of bread in a store and thought that it was so good. 463-64 She would can everything she could get her hands on because she was very frugal 465-68 Making homemade butter was a pain because if you didn't an the milk out it tasted sour. 469-70 Went to bed early every night only thing other thing to do was listen to the radio. 471-79 She used to laundry every Tuesday all day long and then ironing every Monday and she would iron from morning until night She ironed everything right down to the sheets and their underwear. 480-86 came out West didn't have money to buy Christmas or so Merle would make the girls gifts, like don cratnes, tables and chairs, and a playhouse. The girls always liked gifts the 487-89 didn't were happy. 490-503 Dorthy was always in 1941 and it continued on~rara from them. She believes the that entered her when her appendix ruptured led to her heart condition. It had happened to several ofher family members the same way. 507-12 her to the was a hassle too because the war time the gas was rationed and the hospital was 50 miles away. T'ney had to drop her off at the hospital for two weeks and then come back and get her. 513-17 In Pondosa out hadatumor. 518-25 The year the moved to Central Valley, California she had her tumor removed, Die the youngest daughter had her appendix out, Nettie got her tonsils out and Merle had all his teeth pulled. It took all the money they had to pay for the dootor bills and it took quite awhile before they could save some more money. However, Dorthy was a good money manager. 526-37 Religion always played a major role in her life. Her family were strict Catholics and she always attended Catechism. Although it was sometimes hard to get to church in the winter. 438-42 She would send her to girls away in the summer for a two week camp to learn about Catholicism and would teach it to them in the winter. 443-54 They were originally not married in the churoh and after they were married for 6 years they had it blessed in the church. She, herself never mentioned it but her girls would tease that she was was came than 9 were married. embmced Dorthy and she wouldn't about it, her cry about it and so stopped teasing her and never mentioned it again. as a child she could have gone on. 500-71 In adolescence she used to play on a baseball team during the summer. 572-75 As an adult her only social 576-82 She never learned how to drive. Every time she would attempt to learn how her and Merle would get into a fight so she vowed she never would and didn't. She relied on her husband and her daughters to take her around. 583-87 In California after the girls were teens she would work in some strawberry fields as the boss just to out of the house a little bit. 588-600 In Ivory pines she had worked in a box factory. She also worked at a filling station where she would have to gas up all the logging trucks was was about 605-21 Her family was very close and meal times were particularly special. They would sit down together for a three meals a day, say their meal prayers, and visit. About 8:30 at night they would sit around the wood stove and some and share about the and then go to bed. 622-30 and a man's. Men had their work and a 631-39 Both her and her husband were avid hunters. hunted deer and water fowl 640~44 Family trips with her daughters and l 0 grandchildren would revolve around camping and hunting trips. They were the only vacations they took. 645-54 What she wanted from the future was for kids to be happy and for them to be financiaJly secure. 655-71 She was to leave Minnesota and live her in the West with Merle. 672-83 Her first hom was Nettie in 1937 in a It was a dificult birth and the almost died from complications. The second born llie in 1940 was hom at horne and there were no problems. 684-700 When they moved to Anderson in 1951 had saved enough money to buy a house. house she remained in until she died in December of 1993). 701-07 were a than men. Men go out but a woman stay home and take care of things. 708-16 When the kids left home it was hard for both of them, however she became more independent and a own. She began speaking her mind and standing up for herself. 717-38 Before all Merle would have to do was raise his voice and the girls would jump, but if she did tJie girls would tease her. however she was tJie one who did all tJie disciplining. 739-52 She made it clear that she was a democrat and held political views. 753-70 She noticed a remarkable difference on how times had changed since her early days in the West. It was like walking from tJie dark ages into a light 771-94 Crime was much worse in tJiese modem times. For example, law enforcement was not needed or enforced as much in earlier times people took care of tHemselves. 795-816 western woman. She came out west and had to to make go of it, but tJiey did it 828-34 The first time tJiey had indoor plumbing was in 1947 tJiat was after tJiey had moved out west. 835-46 She has little desire to move back to Minnesota 847-69 Dorthy had always spoken about life optimistically and never spoke oftJieir hard work in a negative light.. She recalled tJie past witJi fond memories and never seemed to complain.
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Title | Knaeble, Dorothy Ann Oral History Interview, 1994 |
Interviewer | Arenchild, Jennifer |
Date | 1994-03-21 |
Description | 62 minute oral history with Dorothy Knaeble, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398) course at Washington State University. This interview was given by Dorothy's two daughters, Nettie Bloom and Ilie Kofford due to Dorothy's untimely death. They describe their mother's early childhood living on a farm in Annandale, Minnesota; Dorothy's family raised chickens and sold vegetables and eggs for extra money. The daughters remember their mother's fond memories of dances and her many social freedoms as a child. Dorothy was only able to complete the eighth grade because her parents could not afford to pay for shoes and supplies; she was very proud of her brother who graduated high school. She married at 19, and moved to Bly, Oregon. Her daughters describe Dorothy's experience with rationing during World War II. Her family moved to Anderson, California in 1951 where she remained active in her community and children's lives until her death in 1993. |
Subject | Farm life; Housewives; Rural women |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Minnesota--Wright County--Annandale; North and Central America--United States--California--Shasta County--Anderson |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua220b11f78 |
Source | Is found in Archives 220, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua220.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua220b11f78_Abstract |
Full Text | 0-6 Introduction- oral history of Dorthy Ann Knaeble. 7-l 0 The reason why I choose this candidate and why it isn't the normal oral history. 11-49 Genealogies- Begins with her great grandparents, the Rushtens. Her grandparents were the. Smiths'. Her parents Myrtle Smith Diering and Albert Diering who were originally from Iowa and moved to Mirtnes:ota. :50-60 Her dad's parents had lmmigrated from Germany and had 9 children. in Annendale Minnesota. 66-75 Didn't have stories to share about racial segregation, she was not a racist. 76-81 When she was a young she would spend summers working with the Indians and peel pulp wood. 82-85 Childhood memories- She thought of her childhood with the fondest of memories. 86-98 Remembers working hard peeling pulp wood while she took her baby along in a box. They would sen the pulp wood to the mills. 99-103 Her father had a chicken farm when she was little and they would sell the eggs. 104-111 She had 9 brothers and sisters- 5 boys and 5 girls. She was the third oldest 112-119 It wasn't easy raising 10 kids when all they had to sell was chicken eggs but her father was also a blacksmith and made money that way. Family alc;o raised a garden for personal use. 120-122 Can remember that at times they had little to eat and would have potato soup for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 123-126 Fondest memories ofbeing a child were the freedom a child had and the summer days they spent swimming in Sugar Lake that was near their home 127-129 Her daily chores usually consisted ofhelping out on the necessary. 130-133 She only attended school up until the 8th grade only because they could not afford shoes and transportation for all the kids 134-136 Marvin the 3rd from the youngest was the first one in the family to graduate from high 137-144 The funniest social events she attended were bam dances, she loved to dance. 145-150 Remembers coming home from a dance one night and thought they'd steal some apples off a neighbors tree but were scared when they heard someone following them and they ran all the way home. She later found out that the person had been her mother. 151-167 She re.rely spoke of any true hardships mood, but when she did she laughed She told of the time their neighbor gave them her old high heel shoes and she cut off the heels to wear to school. 168-174 Very optimistic person and didn't want to dwell on the hard times. 175-177 In her teens she moved in with her grandparents for economic purposes, and she worked in a motel and that is where she met Merle (her husband). 178-179 When she first saw him she thought he was so very handsome. 188-194 They used to go to dances and he did not know how to dance and so he would wait out in the car until she was done. She, finally taught him to dance when she caught him out in the car necking with another girt 195-202 When they were first married they lived in a tar paper shack. 203-209 meat that they would can store the cellar along with some canned 210-213 She always thought that if people went hungry it was there own fault for not planting r-·,-~ one not a lot but son1eti:JLine;. 214-219 Merles dad would come over and help himself to the and would often have to go him to ask him for some it He would also cash Merles paycheck sometimes too. 220-225 They spent some time in a logging camp where he logged and she worked in the cookhouse. 226-229 When they moved to Oregon she had a ruptured appendix which took an the money they had to pay for bills. 230-238 Had to move back to Minnesota for the winter and lived in a one room shack and really had to scratch to eat. 239-246 Made an their own butter and she began canning when she was young. 247-256 1941 they moved to Blye Oregon, she was 23 at the time 257-258 They moved out West on twenty dollars. 259-265 Rationing of war stamps- she remembers how they had to be careful. They had stamps soe•~mcauy for buying and her and her husband had to forfeit theirs so that their 2 girls would in t."te bottom of their shoes. 266-269 her oldest daughter, left out on the back porch and a dog got them up. were tocome 270-277 Making the margin was much easier than butter because it came in a tub that was essentially lard and an they had to do was stir it up and put food coloring in it 278-283 1st indoor bathroom was in 1947 in Ivory Pines Oregon and they had to use the Sears catalog for toilet paper. 288-294 She gave the kids a bath once a week by heating a big tub of water and have them get into it. 295-302 Using the old irons, they would have to heat on the stove. 303-318 It was quite a rew years before they had running water. 319-328 Recalled having to use the slop bucket a toilet on cold because it was too to go outside. (This is when they were back visiting :in Minnesota) 329-344 Entertainmtent was better back then. 345-355 First time they listened to the radio was when Harry Truman was elected. 356-65 Moved to Pondosa California in 1947 for several years and they were the happiest times. 366-74 Time was consumed with daily chores from morning until night. 375-77 Didn't like being social with anyone but her own family. 378-99 Once a week she would do the laundry and it would take the entire day. 400-08 Oldest daughter, Nettie would help a lot when she was little at 7 years old she was cooking dinner old wood stove. 409-12 She was married :in she was 19. supper 430-39 they moved out West she all kind ofberries to and make jelly. 440-50 baked all her own She would make her own bread, she ren,der€ld. the fat from animal fat and stored it to use as lard. 451-62 She would only buy the essentials that she couldn't make at home at the store (ie milk and foods were a treat). When she came West she bought her first loaf of bread in a store and thought that it was so good. 463-64 She would can everything she could get her hands on because she was very frugal 465-68 Making homemade butter was a pain because if you didn't an the milk out it tasted sour. 469-70 Went to bed early every night only thing other thing to do was listen to the radio. 471-79 She used to laundry every Tuesday all day long and then ironing every Monday and she would iron from morning until night She ironed everything right down to the sheets and their underwear. 480-86 came out West didn't have money to buy Christmas or so Merle would make the girls gifts, like don cratnes, tables and chairs, and a playhouse. The girls always liked gifts the 487-89 didn't were happy. 490-503 Dorthy was always in 1941 and it continued on~rara from them. She believes the that entered her when her appendix ruptured led to her heart condition. It had happened to several ofher family members the same way. 507-12 her to the was a hassle too because the war time the gas was rationed and the hospital was 50 miles away. T'ney had to drop her off at the hospital for two weeks and then come back and get her. 513-17 In Pondosa out hadatumor. 518-25 The year the moved to Central Valley, California she had her tumor removed, Die the youngest daughter had her appendix out, Nettie got her tonsils out and Merle had all his teeth pulled. It took all the money they had to pay for the dootor bills and it took quite awhile before they could save some more money. However, Dorthy was a good money manager. 526-37 Religion always played a major role in her life. Her family were strict Catholics and she always attended Catechism. Although it was sometimes hard to get to church in the winter. 438-42 She would send her to girls away in the summer for a two week camp to learn about Catholicism and would teach it to them in the winter. 443-54 They were originally not married in the churoh and after they were married for 6 years they had it blessed in the church. She, herself never mentioned it but her girls would tease that she was was came than 9 were married. embmced Dorthy and she wouldn't about it, her cry about it and so stopped teasing her and never mentioned it again. as a child she could have gone on. 500-71 In adolescence she used to play on a baseball team during the summer. 572-75 As an adult her only social 576-82 She never learned how to drive. Every time she would attempt to learn how her and Merle would get into a fight so she vowed she never would and didn't. She relied on her husband and her daughters to take her around. 583-87 In California after the girls were teens she would work in some strawberry fields as the boss just to out of the house a little bit. 588-600 In Ivory pines she had worked in a box factory. She also worked at a filling station where she would have to gas up all the logging trucks was was about 605-21 Her family was very close and meal times were particularly special. They would sit down together for a three meals a day, say their meal prayers, and visit. About 8:30 at night they would sit around the wood stove and some and share about the and then go to bed. 622-30 and a man's. Men had their work and a 631-39 Both her and her husband were avid hunters. hunted deer and water fowl 640~44 Family trips with her daughters and l 0 grandchildren would revolve around camping and hunting trips. They were the only vacations they took. 645-54 What she wanted from the future was for kids to be happy and for them to be financiaJly secure. 655-71 She was to leave Minnesota and live her in the West with Merle. 672-83 Her first hom was Nettie in 1937 in a It was a dificult birth and the almost died from complications. The second born llie in 1940 was hom at horne and there were no problems. 684-700 When they moved to Anderson in 1951 had saved enough money to buy a house. house she remained in until she died in December of 1993). 701-07 were a than men. Men go out but a woman stay home and take care of things. 708-16 When the kids left home it was hard for both of them, however she became more independent and a own. She began speaking her mind and standing up for herself. 717-38 Before all Merle would have to do was raise his voice and the girls would jump, but if she did tJie girls would tease her. however she was tJie one who did all tJie disciplining. 739-52 She made it clear that she was a democrat and held political views. 753-70 She noticed a remarkable difference on how times had changed since her early days in the West. It was like walking from tJie dark ages into a light 771-94 Crime was much worse in tJiese modem times. For example, law enforcement was not needed or enforced as much in earlier times people took care of tHemselves. 795-816 western woman. She came out west and had to to make go of it, but tJiey did it 828-34 The first time tJiey had indoor plumbing was in 1947 tJiat was after tJiey had moved out west. 835-46 She has little desire to move back to Minnesota 847-69 Dorthy had always spoken about life optimistically and never spoke oftJieir hard work in a negative light.. She recalled tJie past witJi fond memories and never seemed to complain. |
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