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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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
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

[Women Marines at Mt. Vernon, 1943]

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