Evelyn Casteel Andrews
Oral History of: Evelyn Casteel Andrews
Interviewer: Loyce Martinazzi
Date: 01/09/1990
Click the button to the right to listen to the interview. Written transcript below that.
From her humble beginnings in a home in Tualatin where apartments now stand to a life where Grandma Juergen set the standard for hard work.
Here the details of Evelyn’s life in the short interview with Loyce Martinazzi from 1990. You will be fascinated to hear about logging—which stopped in the summer due to fire danger; the disparity in wages between men and women; and the sawmill where her father lost his arm.
TOPICS
Casa Nobles apartments , Doc Vincent, Hanegan's, Dr. Schroeder, the brick store, Grandma Jurgens, Bohemia, logging camps, no logging in summer due to fire danger, Smiths, Boones, Lake Oswego Golf links, shipyards, Nicolai's making tent poles for the army, wages at that time (and men versus women), Sherwood, Portland Canning Company, Kenneth, cannery, dog food, brick yard, sawmill, granddad lost arm, Oregon Electric railroad, berries, Southern Pacific train, the old depot, John L. Smith, Granny Casteel, twelve kids, Blue Lake, Dayton, Washington, Salem, Austin Insurance.
Sisters Vella, Evelyn (center) and Arlene
The three Casteel ladies, Vella, Arelene and Evelyn. Taken at the Andrews-Jurgens reunion at George Andrews' place.
Evelyn’s birthday (holding cake). Hallie in wheelchair at logging camp at Yankton near town of St. Helens
A young Evelyn. Photo contributed by granddaughter Kristie Turner. Kristie is the daughter of Evelyn’s second child, Marian Andrews Ficken,
