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- Tags: retired
Donald Oppedal's Oral History
Tags: 1985, Aging Advisory Commission, Betty Turnell, Bible school, brain surgery, Construction Battalion, Decatur IL, Decatur Senior Citizen Council, Donald Oppedal, early life, emergency appendectomy, emergency caesarean, family life., German Submarine Alley, Great Lakes Naval Base, Jacksonville FL, Jim Crow law, Korean War, Lake Shore Naval Reserve Center, landing ship tank, Master Chief Hospital Corpsman, May 1985, medical assistant, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, Naval Air Force, Office on Aging, Ombudsman for nursing homes, one-room school, oral history, Oran Algeria, racial relations, recording, retired, Sea Bees, St. Albans NY, Stanhope IA, surgical assistant, US Navy, Vietnam War, World War II
Mr. Donald E. Minton's Oral History
Tags: 1974 tornado, 1988, Army, Betty Turnell, cabinet-making, Chief, Decatur Fire Department, Decatur High School, Donald E. Minton, Japan, natural fire causes, Norfolk and Western Railroad explosion, November 1988, Oakland School, oral history, recording, retired, Staley Company, Walrus Manufacturing Co., wood-working, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School