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    MBY007524
    Leora Ferguson Ciccone and Luann Ferguson Ciccone
    43:53
    Leora Ferguson Ciccone and Luann Ferguson Ciccone
    Jorge Rios
    February 23, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Leora Ferguson Ciccone, 96, talks to her daughter Luann Ferguson Ciccone, 56, about her life and careers in the military and nursing.

    • birth of first child
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • family characters
    • family heroes
    • family influences
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • Military service
    • Money
    • nursing instructors
    • political beliefs and practices
    MBY003775
    Linda Dean Goolsbee and Rose Gorman
    38:29
    Linda Dean Goolsbee and Rose Gorman
    Rose Gorman
    March 20, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Linda Dean Goolsbee tells StoryCorps facilitator Rose Gorman of her parents, Jack and Francis Dean.

    • Abilene, Tx
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • birth of first child
    • college
    • Coretta Scott King
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • El Paso, TX
    • family in-jokes
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Grand Canyon
    • historical events/people
    • Holland Tunnel
    • honesty
    • Jack and Francis Dean
    SFB000413
    Elizabeth Tilles, Susan Goldstein, and Rebecca Tilles
    00:00
    Elizabeth Tilles, Susan Goldstein, and Rebecca Tilles
    Alex Lyon
    July 16, 2009 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Elizabeth Tilles (89) talks to her granddaughter Rebecca Tilles (21) and friend Susan Goldstein (66) about her life growing up in Germany and working as a nurse during World War II.

    • craft, skills, and procedures
    • England
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family heroes
    • family trips and excursions
    • grandfather stories
    • hospital stories
    • Influential People
    • memories of former times
    • memories of growing up
    • personal experiences
    • school day memories
    • school songs
    • The Holocaust
    MBY004917
    Bess Falkow and Alan  Strauss
    00:00
    Bess Falkow and Alan Strauss
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    January 9, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Bess talks about what a wonderful life she has had and how much she has loved her husband.

    • 4th of July
    • Albany, NY
    • Antisemitism
    • bat mitzvah
    • Blue Law
    • Columbia Law School
    • department store
    • Emmanuel Rackman
    • family expressions
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Hebrew School
    • Jewish Orthodox
    • Lake Roosevelt
    • Miracles
    MBY004804
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    00:00
    Lois Harvey Gatchell and Laurie Gatchell Green
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    November 28, 2008 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Lois tells stories about growing up in South Dakota, studying journalism and her many carriers throughout her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Aunt Kitty
    • blind date
    • college
    • Community Relations Commissions of Tulsa
    • Deacon
    • Defense Department
    • Democrat
    • democratic national convention
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • high jumping
    • Journalism
    • Kennedy Foundation
    • Letter writing
    MBY007438
    Mary Louisa  Kanalos and Jill Kanalos
    37:20
    Mary Louisa Kanalos and Jill Kanalos
    Lilly Sullivan
    January 25, 2011 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Mary Louisa Kanalos (88) talks with daughter Kill Kanalos (55) about her career as one of the FBI’s first female radio operators.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • apprenticeships
    • business college
    • cohorts (groups of friends)
    • college
    • community worthies
    • family trips and excursions
    • FBI
    • Hartford
    • J Edgar Hoover
    • memories of growing up
    • Morse code
    • personal experiences
    • political beliefs and practices
    • Radio Operator
    MBY005996
    Ted Ranneft and Danielle Ranneft
    28:31
    Ted Ranneft and Danielle Ranneft
    whenry-lester
    November 24, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Danielle interviews her father, Ted, about his time in the Dutch army in WWII, stationed in New Guinea

    • Accidents
    • Australia
    • Dutch
    • Dutch East Indies
    • family trips and excursions
    • General MacArthur
    • Geology
    • hepatitis
    • historical events/people
    • Holland
    • illness
    • Indonesia
    • Japanese
    • Malay
    • memories of former times
    MBY005413
    Irene Prince and Gary Prince
    43:33
    Irene Prince and Gary Prince
    whenry-lester
    May 11, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Gary interviews his grandmother Irene about her life.

    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Annie Irene Swain
    • B-29
    • birth of first child
    • Boeing
    • castor oil
    • Chemotherapy
    • Cupertino, CA
    • Don Prince
    • dustbowl
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family naming and nicknames
    • family trips and excursions
    • Great Depression stories
    • illness
    MBY005529
    Shalom  Seltzer, Lucia  Borrello, and Gabriel Borrello-Seltzer
    41:56
    Shalom Seltzer, Lucia Borrello, and Gabriel Borrello-Seltzer
    Chaela Herridge-Meyer
    June 7, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Shalom Daniel Seltzer, 62, by his children, Lucia and Gabriel Borrello about his childhood and the leaving of New Orleans after Katrina.

    • Abbyville
    • apprenticeships
    • Atom Bomb
    • cats
    • Classical music
    • college
    • Dixieland
    • dogs
    • economic beliefs and practices
    • family characters
    • family favorite songs and poems
    • family members in history
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • Florida
    MBY005835
    Siegfried Buss and Frieda Nossaman
    37:22
    Siegfried Buss and Frieda Nossaman
    Alejandro De La Cruz
    October 12, 2009 MobileBooth West (MBY)

    Siegfried Buss (78) talks with daughter Frieda Nossaman (?) about being a German missionary living in Japan.

    • Accidents
    • anecdotes (humorous but true stories)
    • Church
    • college
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family Traditions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • German
    • Germany
    • Hirohito
    • historical events/people
    • Japan
    • Japanese Emperor
    SFB000801
    Ruth Levenson, Cecily Burke, and David Taussig
    01:19:55
    Ruth Levenson, Cecily Burke, and David Taussig
    Alex Lyon
    May 9, 2010 San Francisco StoryBooth

    Ruth Levenson (87) talks to her son David Taussig (60) and daughter-in-law Cecily Burke (61) about her life as a Holocaust refugee and eventually immigrating to the United States.

    • accents
    • Adolph Hitler
    • being saved
    • Boarding Houses
    • Business School
    • California
    • Childhood Games
    • Culture shock
    • family members in history
    • family naming and nicknames
    • Family reunions
    • family trips and excursions
    • first impression of America
    • fur business
    • historical events/people

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