Interview with Roza Wagner, C.S.J., March 10, 1982, Tape 1, Side 1
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0045-t1s1
"Interview with Roza Wagner, C.S.J., March 10, 1982; July 28, 1982" Metadata
Metadata Details
Title
Interview with Roza Wagner, C.S.J., March 10, 1982; July 28, 1982
Subject
St. Joseph's Infant Home (Ebensburg, Pa.), St. Joseph's Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pa.), Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden, Wagner, Roza, Catholics, Nuns--Religious life, Miners, Depressions--1929, Family life
Description
[t1s1]Sister Roza Wagner talks about her birth in 1897 in Austria-Hungarian Empire (Yugoslavia); generations of family owning farms; coming to United States c. 1902. She talks about youngest sister left behind with aunt: growing up and marrying; being put out of house by Communists; sent on boxcars to Germany; Roza sending care packages. She talks about family settling in Brownsville; lack of safety in the mines; family purchase of timberland in North Carolina. She talks about 1907 explosion in Fairhope mine: father helping miners; pregnant mother giving birth unexpectedly. She talks about living in Donora: house; miners’ union; strike; company store; country school; St. Charles School and music lessons; zinc mills. [t2s1]Sister Roza Wagner talks about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph in 1914; first assignments as cook in school convents; caring for children in St. Joseph’s Infant Home in Ebensburg in 1902s; life during the Depression. She talks about her mother’s cooking; Holstein cows; recuperation from surgery; working in dining room at St. Joseph’s Hospital. [t2s2]Sister Roza Wagner talks about becoming a Sister of St. Joseph: receiving the habit 1915; milking cows as a novice; changing name to baptismal name for voting as a citizen; visit of dying mother. She speaks about lay sisters gaining voting rights in the congregation; contending with other sisters’ views of domestic sisters. She talks about recreation in the past; working the day of receiving the habit; changes in Religious life; hopes for the future of Religious life.
Contributor
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden (depositor), Wagner, Roza (interviewee), Witt, Sally (interviewer), Heaps, Consuelo (interviewer)
Date
1982-03-10/1982-07-28
Type
oral histories (literary genre)
Format
cassette tape, 143 minutes
Identifier
pitt:20230202-ssjb-0045
Language
eng
Relation
Sisters of St. Joseph of Baden Oral History Collection
Coverage
Donora (Pa.), Ebensburg (Pa.)
Rights
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