Bulzone, Ellen
- Object Type
- Oral history
- Object ID
- 15293
- Date
- March 20 2009
- Description
- Ellen Hanlin Bulzone (1923- ) grew up in Pennville, Indiana on a farm. In 1943, she joined the U.S. Navy with a friend from Indiana, and moved to New York to begin training at Hunter College. After further training and work in Stillwater, Oklahoma and in Sampson, New York, Bulzone was transferred to the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1946. She married later that year and remained in Brooklyn working at Macy's in Manhattan while her husband served as a commissary officer in California and China. When he returned in 1948, they moved to Norfolk, Virginia, where Ellen Bulzone worked at the Norfolk Navy Yard until her son was born. They later moved to Pensacola Florida, Bayonne, New Jersey and finally Staten Island, New York. In this interview, Bulzone details her various duties at the receiving station near the Brooklyn Navy Yard. She also talks about her life before joining the Navy, her uniform, her and her husband's first date at Ebbets Field, her family and in-laws and her marriage inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard Hospital's chapel. She explains how Catholic churches refused to marry them because her husband was Catholic and she was Protestant. She also discusses her feelings about moving from a small town in Indiana to New York City.
- Related Collection
- Brooklyn Navy Yard Oral History Project
- Subjects
- Office Workers and Personnel, Women
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