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Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0177

Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 25 June 2000; various military papers from Edwards Women's Army Corps service, 1943-1945; various photographs of Edwards Army Special Services work, 1943-1945.

Dates

  • 1943-2000

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

Copyright is retained by the creators of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information. Please see our Sensitive Materials Statement.

Biographical / Historical

Marjorie R. Suggs Edwards (1917-2005), of Passaic, New Jersey, worked in personnel, special services, and motor pool with the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and Women's Army Corps (WAC) from February 1943 to December 1945. Following her military service, Edwards had a long career as an interior designer, primarily in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards was born and raised in an immigrant community in Passaic, New Jersey, by her Cuban grandmother. She held several manufacturing and social work jobs before enlisting in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (later the WAC) in February 1943. Edwards attended basic training with a segregated African American unit in Fort Des Moines, Iowa. During the course of the war she performed personnel work at Fort Custer, Michigan; attended Special Services School at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia; served as special services officer at Fort Sheridan in Illinois; and worked in a motor pool at Fort Sam Houston in Texas.

Discharged as a sergeant in December 1945, Edwards attended the Traphagen School of Fashion in New York City on the GI Bill and studied interior design. She operated an interior design shop until moving to Cincinnati, Ohio, in the mid-1940s to marry. She continued her design work for forty years, and in retirement was a volunteer at the Durham VA hospital and a local elementary school. Marjorie Edwards passed away in 2005.

Extent

0.21 Linear Feet (Document Folder (with 3 folders))

Language of Materials

English

Metadata Rights Declarations

  • License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.

Condition Description

The condition is fair.

Offensive Language Statement

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Processing Information

Processed by Matthew McCarthy.

Title
Marjorie Randolph Suggs Edwards Collection
Status
In Progress
Author
Matthew McCarthy
Date
2022 September
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
eng

Repository Details

Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository

Contact:
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320 College Ave.
Greensboro NC 27402-6170 US
336-334-5246