Shirley D. Brantley Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 May 2001; various photograph of Shirley, 1952; official portrait photograph of the group of service members that completed dental technician training at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, 8 December 1952.
Dates
- 1952-1954
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Shirley Dowd Brantley (b. 1934) of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was a dental technician in the United States Air Force from 1952 to 1954.
Shirley Dowd Brantley was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1934. She graduated from South Hills High School in 1952 and immediately enlisted in the air force. She completed basic training at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas in the fall of 1952 and and then trained to be a dental technician at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois. In January 1953 returned to Lackland, and in October of that year met Charles Brantley, an air force dental lab technician. The two were married in November of 1954, and Brantley was discharged the following month.
After her service, Brantley moved to Monroe, North Carolina, with her husband. There they ran a sandwich shop. When her first child was born, she and her husband moved to Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and they later relocated to Durham, North Carolina. Brantley has eight children and currently resides in Statesville, North Carolina.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (2 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 good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- Title
- Shirley D. Brantley Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 October
- 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