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Winifred Seagondollar

Administrative AssistantLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Winifred E. Seagondollar

Winifred Elizabeth (Varner) Seagondollar was an administrative assistant at Los Alamos and the wife of physicist L. Worth Seagondollar.

She graduated from the Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia, Kansas, and got married to Worth Seagondollar in 1942. Together the couple had three children. In 1944, Winifred traveled with her husband when he started work at Los Alamos and began work there as an administrative assistant.

Winifred died two years after her husband on June 29, 2015, in Raleigh, North Carolina. 

Winifred Seagondollar's Timeline
1920 Jul 1st Born in Missoula, Montana.
1942 Married L. Worth Seagondollar.
1944 Started work at Los Alamos.
2015 Jun 29th Died in Raleigh, North Carolina.

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