Memories of WWII

Katharine was born June 28, 1923 in Mobile, AL. Her father was Sidney C. Phillips who had been wounded in the first World War. She had a kid brother overseas with the 1st Marine Division. She said, "Its tremble to live in fear that you're going to lose the person you love, and you have no control over it." She was a sophomore at auburn when Pearl Harbor was attacked.  She described her college days during wartime as, "No more football games, no pep rallies, no baseball games and now boys; their was no competition with other colleges." The campus population shrank to 1,000 women and 250 men. After she graduated she moved back to Mobile where the rest of her family lived. She had a job at a daycare. She volunteered at the Reel Cross Canteen at the railroad station, she served coffee and donuts to the men on troops trains as they passed through. She also drove officers around town and corresponded frequently with all the boys overseas. She followed the news of the war. She learned to cook without sugar, butter and the other essentials ingredients. She married Harvey Singer in 1947. He was a naval pilot during the war, he evacuated the wounded from combat zones to medical facilities. They had two daughters and four grandchildren.