Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 4879
- Salutation
- Ms
- First Name
- Vernia
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Virginia Abbott
- Last Name
- Dyer
- Address 1
- 117 Belford Way
- Address 2
- City
- Alabaster
- State
- AL
- Zip Code
- 35007
- Phone
- 205-663-4669
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- State Membership
- AL
- Status
- Alive
- Date of Birth
- 07/14/1927
- Date of Death
- Deceased At Join?
- Comments
- “I worked during the day at a dime store. Then I went to school until 11 o’clock at night to learn to be a welder. Then I went to Bechtel-McCone where they were building the airplanes to go to our boys overseas and I lay up in the bomb bay of B-24s and soldered wires of each side that operated the front and the back of the airplanes. I worked hard to get there. That was one of my proudest accomplishments, that and having my children. I have three.” -Virginia Abbott Dyer, Birmingham According to her daughter, Dyer left the farm at 16 to move downtown to work at Bechtel-McCone. “I had a brother, my boyfriend, and two brothers-in-law in the pits of hell overseas. That’s why I did it,” Dyer said.
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