Submitter's First Name
Paula
Submitter's Last Name
Peloquin
Relationship to Honoree
Daughter
Submitter's Phone Number
401-487-3034
Submitter's Email Address
peloquip@juno.com
Mill Employee First Name
Sophie
Mill Employee Last Name
Peloquin
Mill Employee Maiden Name
Nichola
Mill Employee Birth Date
Mill Employee Birthplace
Woonsocket, RI
Mill Employee Workplace 1
Woonsocket Rubber Co.
Job Title 1
Rubber Raft Builder
Mill Employee Start Date 1
1943
Mill Employee End Date 1
1945
Mill Employee Photo
Mill Employee Nickname
Ophie
Mill Employee Ethnic Identity
Romanian
Mill Employee School
Woonsocket High School
Mill Employee House Worship
St. John Baptist Romanian Orthodox
Biography Text
Sophie was born in Woonsocket on March 6, 1929 to Paul and Constance (Coca) Nichola. Sophie first went to work during WWII while still a student at Woonsocket High School. She worked after school on the "student shift" at the Alice Mill in support of the war effort.She helped to make Navy rubber rafts. Sophie went on to work in a number of jobs over the years from sales clerk, to a telephone operator. Her last job was a clerk typist at the US Navy base in Newport.
Sophie married Roger Peloquin on May 30, 1963 at St. Ann's Church. She and Roger had one son, Donald and one daughter, Paula.
Sophie passed on March 13, 2011.