Oral history interview with Antonita Mendiola Trebesch, 2011 May 6

File — Carton: 1, Folder: 73

Identifier: MSS 9148 File 73

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Scope and Contents

Don E. Norton oral history interview with Antonita Mendiola Trebesch, dated May 7, 2011. Includes transcript and accompanying index.

Dates

2011 May 6

Creator

Trebesch, Antonita Mendiola, 1934- (interviewee, Person)
Norton, Don E. (1934-) (interviewer, Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for public research.

Conditions Governing Use

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from this collection must be obtained from Reference Services at specialcollections@byu.edu.

Biographical History

Antonita Mendiola Trebesch was born and raised in Guam as the youngest of nine children. Her mother passed away the day after she was born, so she was raised by her aunt. She was seven years old when Pearl Harbor was bombed and Japan occupied Guam. After they were liberated and after she graduated high school, she received a scholarship and moved to the States to attend nursing school and anesthesia. She married an American whose family had come from Prussia. They moved to Provo. She was Catholic until she joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1980.