Elder Interview-Patricia Pat Harms
Name/Title
Elder Interview-Patricia "Pat" HarmsEntry/Object ID
A.2008.001.182Tags
Needs Accession Sheet, Needs Location, Needs PhotoDescription
Harms, Patricia "Pat" Lucinda (Metoxen) Born 09/13/1921 in Flandreau, S.D. Parents: Lucinda (Hill) and Richard Metoxen Paternal Grandparents: Simon and Lavina (Skenandore) Maternal Grandparents: Peter and Phoebe Hill She doesn’t know her great grandparents’. Her parent’s had 11 children. She has 4 children. Her father and mother both worked at the South Dakota School. He was a carpenter and she was a seamstress. Her mother use to make their clothes. Then they moved back to Oneida. They got send off to a Indian school in Tomah for 3 years. Then they closed the school down. Then went to St. Joseph Catholic School in Oneida. We were very poor when they were growing up. We lived on Old Seymour Rd. We would go to the parish hall for a picnic on 4th of July. Thanksgiving and Christmas wasn’t too good, because no one was working. They didn’t have a Christmas tree. We went to church on Christmas eve. If she got sick she went to see Doctor Hinter, he told her parents she had to go to the Hospital at St. Vincent. She got a job at St. Vincent Hospital for awhile. Then she went to Milwaukee. She met her first husband, Chester Wayer in 1940. She got a divorce from her first husband. She got married again. She got a job at Larson Canning Company. Then she got hired at Seymour Canning Company for a couple of years. She worked at Anna John Nursing Home. And she work at Irene Moore until she retired. Her advice to the Youth is stay in school, get a good education.Recording Type
Audio/VisualCollection
Elder InterviewsCataloged By
Gerzetich, Courtney (Cottrell)Category
Digital Media