Mary Rita Lambert Research Paper
Mary Rita Lambert was born on June 8th, 1934 in St. Louis, Missouri. She grew up in the city area with her four other siblings in a strict, Catholic household. She had three sisters and one brother. She was the middle child of the family, despite being close in age with her other two, younger sisters born two years apart from each other. My grandmother, Phyllis was born in 1936 and her youngest sister, Connie was born in 1938. Her older sister, Frances was born in 1925 and her older brother, Jackson was born in 1926. The older siblings often took care of the family and were regularly responsible for household duties while their parents were off working their jobs. I asked her if she remembered anything about the Great Depression, but she really
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He would often come home tired, but would still manage to socialize with his children and eat dinner before going to bed. Mary described her father as a very hardworking man in the household, throughout the late 1930s and the early 1940s, he held two jobs in construction work and sales, in addition to serving time in the military in the 1920s. She mentioned how during this time her father was stationed in France. During her father’s time on a military base, he acquired a job of cutting hair for the army which would later precipitate in him opening up his own local barber shop in the early 1940s in the St. Louis area. Helen Lambert, Mary’s mother, worked as a nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s before retiring around 1948. After that she remained at home and took care of her children. Mary attended St. Elizabeth Academy High school and graduated in 1952. After her graduation, she received a scholarship to attend Fontbonne University, earning a bachelor's degree in finance in 1956. She became an accountant at a local bank and she also worked as a secretary at a finance company throughout the 1960s and
He would often come home tired, but would still manage to socialize with his children and eat dinner before going to bed. Mary described her father as a very hardworking man in the household, throughout the late 1930s and the early 1940s, he held two jobs in construction work and sales, in addition to serving time in the military in the 1920s. She mentioned how during this time her father was stationed in France. During her father’s time on a military base, he acquired a job of cutting hair for the army which would later precipitate in him opening up his own local barber shop in the early 1940s in the St. Louis area. Helen Lambert, Mary’s mother, worked as a nurse at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in the 1920s and 1930s before retiring around 1948. After that she remained at home and took care of her children. Mary attended St. Elizabeth Academy High school and graduated in 1952. After her graduation, she received a scholarship to attend Fontbonne University, earning a bachelor's degree in finance in 1956. She became an accountant at a local bank and she also worked as a secretary at a finance company throughout the 1960s and