Helmi Hannuksela Jackson Interview, March 27, 1980

Helmi Jackson describes her childhood in Finland and how her mother died when Helmi was only three. Jackson talks about visiting her sister in 1923 in Butte, Montana, and deciding to stay. She recalls working as a waitress in a boarding house in Butte and meeting her first husband there. She talks about taking extra work as a housemaid during the Great Depression when her husband couldn’t get a job. Jackson describes becoming a boarding house proprietor after her husband died and later remarrying. No audio of this interview exists. The interviewer took notes and produced summary of the interview.https://scholarworks.umt.edu/butte_oralhistory/1012/thumbnail.jp