Edna Painter Searles Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 26 October 1999; a photograph of Searles in Marine Corps Women's Reserve uniform, circa 1944.
Dates
- circa 1944-1999
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The collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical
Edna Painter Searles (1923-2015), of Roanoke, Virginia, served in the Marine Corps Women's Reserve from 1944 to October 1945.
Edna Painter Searles was born in Roanoke, Virginia, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. She graduated from Dobyns-Bennett High School in 1939 and then attended business school before going to work for a law firm in Kingsport."
In 1944, Searles joined the Marine Corps Women's Reserve and went to basic training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She remained at Camp Lejeune, working in the legal office. Searles later became a court reporter, and was eventually the non-commissioned officer in charge of the legal office. She was discharged in October 1945.
Searles married in July 1945. Her husband's United States Air Force service took their family to South Dakota, Kansas, Florida, Germany, and Hawaii. They later settled in Florida and Searles worked as the administrative assistant to Dr. J. Ollie Edmunds, the president of Stetson University, for ten years.
In the late 1960s, she helped the Fish Trust set up a retirement center, which she managed for thirteen years. In the early 1980s, they moved to Linville, North Carolina, where Searles worked for a golf course.
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.
- Painter Searles, Edna
- United States. Marine Corps Women's Reserve -- Uniforms
- Women and the military
- Women marines
- Women marines -- Interviews
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Edna Painter Searles Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 May
- 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