Bates World War II Homefront Natick Veterans Oral History Project
Channel: natvets1
Date: 2015-10-30

Rose Sammartano was born and raised in Natick, the daughter of Italian immigrants. She’s lived all her life in town, and remembers many of the businesses no longer there. During World War II, she took part in rationing programs, and was a nurse’s aide. After the war, she married Robert Bates, a World War II Navy veteran.