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Diana VanWyck

MotherHanford, WA

Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Hanford Listen to Diana VanWyck’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Diana VanWyck moved to Richland with her husband Fred in 1944 from Charleston, West Virginia, where Fred worked at DuPont's Belle Plant as a technician. At Hanford, Diana raised the VanWyck children and was a volunteer around town. She and her husband watched Richland grow and evolve over their time living there.

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