Shade, Dorothy

This project has been completed. You can view the transcribed interview with Dorothy Shade and other military veterans here.

Instructions

• If you have not already done so, review the Help Us Transcribe page for step- by-step instructions on how to transcribe the oral histories in this collection (it might be helpful to leave this page open for easy reference).
• Before you start transcribing the interview, please check out the project’s Tips on Transcribing page for formatting guidelines and explanations on how to handle military terminology. You can also see a sample transcription page here.
• Once you are ready to proceed, click on one of the links below to be taken to the Scripto login page for Dorothy Shade:
  
  Interview 1 with Dorothy Shade (Interviewer: Gwen C. Murray)
  
  Interview 2 with Dorothy Shade (Interviewer: Gwen C. Murray)

Biography
Dorothy Mae Hartman Shade was born on June 16, 1924, in Easton, Pennsylvania, to George E. and Catharine Vannatta Hartman. By 1940, the Hartman family was living in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and Dorothy's father was an insurance superintendent. During World War II, Dorothy Hartman served in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), a unit of the U.S. Naval Reserve. She worked in the Enlisted Records unit of a U.S. Navy demobilization station in San Francisco, California, hold the rank of Store Keeper Dispersing.

Later getting married and taking the surname Shade, Dorothy Shade came to live in Pinehurst, N.C. Dorothy H. Shade died on November 27, 2007, in Pinehurst, N.C.