She was born in La Jara, Colorado on Dec 15, 1908 and was the youngest of the 7 child of Samuel Clark Franklin and his wife Harriet Elizabeth Rice. They had moved to Colorado from Madison County, North Carolina in 1899. Her mother died when she was about 12 years old. (abt 1920).
She met her future husband (Harlan Coursey) when he came to Colorado from Kansas to work in helping to harvest crops grown in the area. They met at a grange hall dance they both attended one Saturday night.
In their starting out as a couple at the very beginning of the Depression years, they were in for some very tough times over the next 10 years. They moved to the Portland area in 1939 from Colorado and in things having geared up in this country as far providing much needed materials to England in respects to the war they were in with Germany, she and her husband were both hired by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon as welders. She was quickly promoted to the position of a chief weld inspector in her having the ability to recognize good welding work verses bad welding work.
They helped build "Liberty Ships" during WWII and in knowing her well, those built in Portland were certainly seaworthy when they were launched.
She was totally content to not work after the war and go back to caring for her family 'full time'. She was wonderful mother, wife, aunt and grandmother and those who knew her, loved her dearly.
Meridee D Dunn
She met her future husband (Harlan Coursey) when he came to Colorado from Kansas to work in helping to harvest crops grown in the area. They met at a grange hall dance they both attended one Saturday night.
In their starting out as a couple at the very beginning of the Depression years, they were in for some very tough times over the next 10 years. They moved to the Portland area in 1939 from Colorado and in things having geared up in this country as far providing much needed materials to England in respects to the war they were in with Germany, she and her husband were both hired by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon as welders. She was quickly promoted to the position of a chief weld inspector in her having the ability to recognize good welding work verses bad welding work.
They helped build "Liberty Ships" during WWII and in knowing her well, those built in Portland were certainly seaworthy when they were launched.
She was totally content to not work after the war and go back to caring for her family 'full time'. She was wonderful mother, wife, aunt and grandmother and those who knew her, loved her dearly.
Meridee D Dunn
She was born in La Jara, Colorado on Dec 15, 1908 and was the youngest of the 7 child of Samuel Clark Franklin and his wife Harriet Elizabeth Rice. They had moved to Colorado from Madison County, North Carolina in 1899. Her mother died when she was about 12 years old. (abt 1920).
She met her future husband (Harlan Coursey) when he came to Colorado from Kansas to work in helping to harvest crops grown in the area. They met at a grange hall dance they both attended one Saturday night.
In their starting out as a couple at the very beginning of the Depression years, they were in for some very tough times over the next 10 years. They moved to the Portland area in 1939 from Colorado and in things having geared up in this country as far providing much needed materials to England in respects to the war they were in with Germany, she and her husband were both hired by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon as welders. She was quickly promoted to the position of a chief weld inspector in her having the ability to recognize good welding work verses bad welding work.
They helped build "Liberty Ships" during WWII and in knowing her well, those built in Portland were certainly seaworthy when they were launched.
She was totally content to not work after the war and go back to caring for her family 'full time'. She was wonderful mother, wife, aunt and grandmother and those who knew her, loved her dearly.
Meridee D Dunn
She met her future husband (Harlan Coursey) when he came to Colorado from Kansas to work in helping to harvest crops grown in the area. They met at a grange hall dance they both attended one Saturday night.
In their starting out as a couple at the very beginning of the Depression years, they were in for some very tough times over the next 10 years. They moved to the Portland area in 1939 from Colorado and in things having geared up in this country as far providing much needed materials to England in respects to the war they were in with Germany, she and her husband were both hired by the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation in Portland, Oregon as welders. She was quickly promoted to the position of a chief weld inspector in her having the ability to recognize good welding work verses bad welding work.
They helped build "Liberty Ships" during WWII and in knowing her well, those built in Portland were certainly seaworthy when they were launched.
She was totally content to not work after the war and go back to caring for her family 'full time'. She was wonderful mother, wife, aunt and grandmother and those who knew her, loved her dearly.
Meridee D Dunn
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