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Eleanor Margaret (Roen) Larson

SecretaryOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Oak Ridge Chapel

Eleanor Margaret (Roen) Larson (1917-2006) was a secretary at Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project.

Eleanor Margaret Roen was born in Mikana, Wisconsin on January 27, 1917. At Oak Ridge, she met and married Quentin V. Larson, a laboratory assistant.

Later in her life, she was involved in the Karns Community and Karns schools for over fifty years. After her children grew up, she returned to work and was employed at H&R Block for over twenty years. 

At the age of eighty-nine, Eleanor Margaret (Roen) Larson died in Knoxville, TN on July 24, 2006.

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