Oral history interview with Dawn Beckstrand, 2014 December 22

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Identifier: MSS 9148 File 10

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Scope and Contents

Don E. Norton oral history interview with Dawn Beckstrand, dated December 22, 2014. Includes transcript and accompanying index. Also includes photos of Dawn.

Dates

2014 December 22

Creator

Beckstrand, Dawn (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

Dawn Beckstrand was born in Delta, Utah and raised on a farm in Meadow, Utah. After graduating from high school in 1941, she attended Dixie College in St. George. At the outset of World War II, her brother and nephew were drafted. She moved to Salt Lake City and worked. When her brother returned, she went with him to Los Angeles, California and got a job at an airplane factory working on the wings of planes. After the war ended, she worked for a time in San Francisco and then in Casablanca. She returned to America to be with family and got her old job in San Francisco. After retirement, she moved back to Utah and lived in American Fork. She spent a great deal of her life traveling all over the world.