Thurman, Elvin Theodore
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Elvin Theodore Thurman was born on March 6, 1908 in Noti to O.C. Thurman and Mary E. Thurman. He married Gertrude Blanch White (born May 15, 1900). He died on February 15, 1971.
[edit] Interview by AVIS MARIE (BARRETT) METCALF in MARCH 1994
"Dad [Kenneth (1896)] had 2 dump trucks that he hired out to the county (Lane) for road building jobs and to the city of Eugene for the building and paving of Birch Lane. He trucks were Internationals... Elvin Thurman (our cousin) drove for him for a number of years. When the labor unions started coming in Elvin reported Dad for not being union so Dad lost a lot of work...
