Susie Dyck

Susie is my great grandma, who was born in 1915. She is ninety three now.

During World War Two she was twenty four. She had a husband and three children at the time, two boys and one girl. She lived on a farm in Yero, Canada.

What she did for a living during World War Two was pick hops, which she didn’t make beer out of because it was bad. She made the hops into yeast. Also, she was a mother who took care of her children and a good wife to her husband.

Her reaction to the bombing of Pearl Harbor was that she didn’t like what Japan said to the United States, but it didn’t really affect her life.

How the war affected her life was that there was shortages in gas, sugar, coffee, beans, and dairy products. Her family and friends had to use food stamps for items that were short and only got little amounts at a time that were supposed to last for a long length of time. Her family didn’t really need to use the food stamps to buy a lot of dairy products because of the animals and also farming of the foods they had.

Her opinion on the atom bomb dropping in Japan was that it was really terrible and shouldn’t have happened. She felt sorry for all the poor innocent people.

Her most lasting memory was when the war ended. Another was during the time of the war at night people were not allowed to have their lights on or any showing, so they had to cover the windows and everything had to be black at night. This was because they were told to do so and they thought that when planes saw proof of living people that the planes would bomb the area. Also, planes had orders to bomb the area that had lights on or if there was an enemy plane over head. Another memory was, after Japan surrendered she gave birth to her fourth child whom was a girl.

Interviewed by Patricia Adams