National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Kattie Strickland was part of the janitorial staff at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. Unlike the white women whom she worked along side, Ms.
William D. Burgmeir derved in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.
Raymond Lowrey worked at the Hanford, Washington site for the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1948. Lowrey began his career in the Oklahoma Ordnance Works before moving to Hanford and settling in Richland, Washington after the war.
Ethel Schwartz arrived as a bride with her husband, Manuel Schwartz, at Los Alamos in 1944. She worked in the office until she became pregnant with her son, Joel Schwartz, who was born there after the bombs were dropped on August 6, 1945.
