"Everybody was working in munition factories that could at Grand Island and Hastings, all over. They were making very good money working there for that time…
"I had a lot of my friends went to Grand Island every day to work, or to Hastings…
And the women took over a lot of men's jobs in town. Like, you know, I probably never would have worked in a bar with my family and everything. But, my husband was gone, and so I did his job."
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Winifred, "Freddie" Oglesby was born on a farm near Bradshaw, Nebraska, the middle of five children. She attended college at Kearney State and became a teacher. She married Roland Oglesby just before World War II. When the war started, Roland was drafted. To help support her family, Freddie went back to work teaching and then tending bar in York. Eventually, she opened her own fabric store becoming one of the first successful businesswomen in York.
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