Yvonne Wilson, 2017

File — Box: 1, Folder: 31

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Interview with Yvonne Wilson, Downwinders of Utah Archive, September 11, 2017, Audio

Scope and Contents

Yvonne Wilson’s mother moved from Hatch, Utah to St. George in 1964 where she lived for the rest of her life. She was diagnosed with hypopharyngeal carcinoma in 1993. She had surgery and radiation that was successful in killing the cancer. She died of heart complications in 2004. While growing up in Hatch, Wilson recounts running outside to see the atomic tests in the distance. Wilson’s husband, Russell M. Wilson was also a Downwinder. When he was a student at Dixie College, one of his teachers took his class onto Utah Hill to watch the tests. Russell was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and had part of his thyroid removed in 2008. He died in 2011.
Interviewed by Anthony Sams.

Dates

Creation: 2017

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