Submitter's First Name
Friendly's Nursing Home
Mill Employee First Name
Delia
Mill Employee Last Name
Lechman
Mill Employee Maiden Name
Moni
Mill Employee Birth Date
Mill Employee Birthplace
Woonsocket
Mill Employee Workplace 1
Murray Worsted
Job Title 1
Office Worker
Mill Employee Start Date 1
1939
Mill Employee End Date 1
1940
Mill Employee Workplace 2
Falls Yarn
Job Title 2
Speed Attender
Mill Employee Start Date 2
1940
Mill Employee End Date 2
1941
Mill Employee Workplace 3
Woonsocket Rubber Co.
Mill Employee Start Date 3
1941
Mill Employee End Date 3
1970
Mill Employee Nickname
Del
Mill Employee Ethnic Identity
Italian
Mill Employee School
Woonsocket High School
Mill Employee House Worship
St. Anthony
Biography Text
Delia was the youngest of three children with 1 brother and 1 sister.
She hated her first office job but she did enjoy her years at the Rubber Shop. She first worked there during WWII when they were making giant barrage balloons that she would crawl inside to conduct a quality inspection. After the war she made soles for sneakers. She remained at the mill until it closed. After the Rubber shop closed she worked at Narragansett Knitting and Woonsocket Coat & Suit. She married at 25.