Submitter's First Name
Saint Antoine Community
Mill Employee First Name
Gloria
Mill Employee Last Name
Tripodi
Mill Employee Maiden Name
Deos
Mill Employee Birth Date
Mill Employee Birthplace
Woonsocket, RI
Mill Employee Workplace 1
Manville Jenckes
Job Title 1
Weaver
Mill Employee Start Date 1
1942
Mill Employee End Date 1
1943
Mill Employee Workplace 2
Woonsocket Rubber Co.
Job Title 2
Inspector
Mill Employee Start Date 2
1943
Mill Employee End Date 2
1944
Mill Employee Workplace 3
Uxbridge Worsted
Job Title 3
Speed Attender
Mill Employee Start Date 3
1944
Mill Employee End Date 3
1952
Mill Employee Ethnic Identity
French Canadian
Mill Employee School
Other/Not Listed
Mill Employee House Worship
St. Anthony
Biography Text
Gloria was born in Woonsocket in 1926 and had a younger brother. Her parents separated when she was a toddler. She moved to New York with her mother while her brother stayed with their father. She returned to Woonsocket when she was 10. During WWII she worked at US Rubber cementing the bottoms of marine boats and inspecting them. She married and had 3 children. She worked the 2nd shift while her husband worked the 1st. She stopped working and had 3 more children. She has 13 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.