Born on August 21, 1922 during the Roaring Twenties, Haubert
lived with her older brother, mother, and her father in a two-
story house. Her father worked as a trolley conductor in town.
After the stock market crash in 1929, also known as Black
Tuesday, Haubert and her family, like many other Americans, went
on government relief set up by Roosevelt’s New Deal. “I remember
there were many for-rent signs,” said Haubert. At the young age
of 19, Haubert went to work as a secretary in Manhattan, New
York. One day, December 7 , 1941, Haubert remembers hearing the
news over the radio of an attack on the ships at Pear Harbor.
“We were in shock,” remarked Haubert.