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Title
[Women
Marines
at
Mt
.
Vernon
,
1943]
Date
1943-10
Subject headings
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era
World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch
Marines--USMC Womens Reserve
Item description
Women
Marines
Betty
Falbrecht
,
Jo
Kasar
,
Betty
Eichert
, and
Audrey
Knyrim
pose
seated
in
front
of
Mount
Vernon's
plantation
house
in
October
1943
.
Veteran's name
Mattern, Audrey Knyrim
Veteran's biography
Audrey
Knyrim
Mattern
(1919-2004)
of
Hazelton
,
Pennsylvania
,
worked
in the
Quartermaster
Department
with the
Marine
Corps
Women's
Reserve
from
1943
to
1945
.
Audrey
Knyrim
Mattern
was
born
in
Hazelton
,
Pennsylvania
, on
20
November
1919
, the
oldest
of
six
children
. Her
father
was a
machinist
for the
Cranberry
Collier
and a
janitor
and her
mother
was a
homemaker
.
Mattern
graduated
from
Hazel
Senior
High
School
in
1937
and then
held
various
positions
at a
five-and-ten
cent
store
,
weekly
newspaper
,
credit
bureau
, and
jewelry
store.
"
Mattern
enlisted
in the
Marine
Corps
Women's
Reserve
in
March
1943
and
received
orders
in
July
. She
attended
basic
training
at
Camp
Lejeune
in
North
Carolina
and in
September
1943
was
sent
to
Henderson
Hall
in
Arlington
,
Virginia
,
where
she was
stationed
in the
Statistical
Department
of the
Quartermaster
Department
. She
remained
there
until
her
discharge
on
6
October
1945.
"
Mattern
returned
to her
job
at the
jewelry
store
in
Hazelton
in the
fall
of
1945
. In
1948
she
moved
to
Denver
,
Colorado
, and
spent
three
years
working
in the
offices
of
Montgomery
Ward
. She
married
Dick
Mattern
in
January
1949
.
Audrey
Mattern
passed
away
in
2004
.
Place
Mt
.
Vernon
(Va.)
Type
image
Original format
photographs
Original publisher
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection
WV0043 Audrey Knyrim Mattern Papers
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Object ID
WV0043.6.008
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 --
http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number
900810654
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