Marge Tarola, 1928-2020, worked for the Laros Silk Mill on Broad Street in Bethlehem for 20 years. Marge participated last year in the Foundation’s oral history project in partnership with the Industrial Archives. Her stories were full of rich details and vivid memories. Marge’s interview will be preserved in perpetuity at the IAL. Marge was full of life and joy and we are very grateful we had a chance to meet; to hear her stories, to share in her joie de vivre and the bounty of her life’s wisdom. Marge will be very missed by many. Her like will not soon pass this way again.
Marge Tarola at NMIH in 2019 holding her photo of the Laros sewing machine operators from early in the 1950’s. Standing with her are her daughter Marjorie to her far right and the children of Laros colleagues at a reception in 2019.
