Submitter's First Name
Friendly's Nursing Home
Mill Employee First Name
Aurore
Mill Employee Middle Name
Loretta
Mill Employee Last Name
Lawrence
Mill Employee Maiden Name
Croteau
Mill Employee Birth Date
Mill Employee Birthplace
Woonsocket, RI
Mill Employee Workplace 1
Manville Jenckes
Job Title 1
Battery Hand
Mill Employee Start Date 1
1938
Mill Employee End Date 1
1938
Mill Employee Workplace 2
Sydney Blumenthal
Job Title 2
Bobbin Settter
Mill Employee Start Date 2
1939
Mill Employee End Date 2
1939
Mill Employee Workplace 3
Blackstone Cotton Mill
Mill Employee Start Date 3
1940
Mill Employee End Date 3
1940
Mill Employee Ethnic Identity
French Canadian
Mill Employee School
St. Ann School
Mill Employee House Worship
Sacred Heart Church
Biography Text
Aurore was the seventh of fourteen children, with 8 sisters and 6 brothers.
She began working at 16 to help support her family even though she loved school and did well. Due to rheumatoid arthritis in her spine it was difficult for her to hold a job for very long.. Her shortest job was 3 months at Miller Electric.
Her favorite job was at the Electro Shop on Main Street where the owner, George Gleason, was very kind and understanding & designed the machines on which she worked.
Her husband was a truck driver, they had 4 children.