Pikes Peak Library District

August 22, 2008

Bernice Gillette

Filed under: General, Voices from the Depression Era in Colorado, All Pikes Peak Reads 2008 — ppld @ 3:43 pm

Bernice (Waitzman) Gillette was born in Ingalls, Kansas September 16, 1910. She moved with her family to Colorado Springs in 1917. In 1928 she married Walter Gillette and spent her life as a homemaker in Colorado Springs. Gillette talks about the effects of the Depression on her family life and particularly how it impacted the domestic chores of maintaining a household.

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