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Margaret Whitehead talks about her memories of World War II. She met her (late) husband in October, 1941, when he was working for Seaboard Railroad near her home town of Dinwiddie, Virginia. They were married in June of 1942 and he joined the Seabees shortly thereafter. Whitehead describes what it was like to be married to a Navy man and expecting a child. Her daughter was born in April of 1943. After more than a year apart, her husband came home on leave in April of 1943. After more than a year apart, her husband came home on leave in April of 1944. She describes the train trip to California where his next duty station was, living in California, and the difficulties of finding housing when she had a small child. She worked at the base post office to make ends meet. Her husband was discharged in August 1945, and they traveled to Florida but eventually returned to Virginia. OHP Control Number 0943

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The White Heron House on Sanibel-Captiva Road in the mid-1990s. The farmhouse was built by the Holloway family in 1903 on Wulfert, and was moved in the 1940s to its present location.