Author MarJoe Davidson
My Work
MarJoe has participated as a speaker at conferences, churches, national TV talk shows, radio talk shows, small groups and one on one telling the story now found in her book.
She is available for speaking engagements.
She is the mother of two boys, grandmother of four grandchildren and five great grandchildren. MarJoe now resides in the Pacific Northwest in the San Juan Islands.
My family
James would find out later the impact of his time working at the Hanford Plant and what effect it would have on the health of both him and his family. He passed on in 1981 of colon cancer. In 1989 they received the news that their mother Mary Alice was terminally ill with cancer, the children took care of her until her death in Jan. 1990. MarJoes' baby sister Carol passed away Jan 2005 of Pancreatic Cancer, and they lost her brother James Oct 2012 shortly after he moved to the Pacific Northwest to be with his sisters. MarJoe and her sister Pat now live a short distance apart on Lopez Island Washington.
Picture :Mesquite Texas Dec 1990
Top Row MarJoe, Pat,
Bottom row James, Mary Alice and Carol
My Journey
1988 MarJoe found out that she and her family had been exposed to radiation that the U.S. government had released one hundred and twenty-eight times into the atmosphere from 1944 to 1949. This was equivalent to 530,000 curies of radiation. Studies have shown that there were more incidents of cancer in people who lived there during the 1940's. The government has never acknowledged a connection to the high cancer deaths from those who lived and worked in Richland WA
Picture: Richland WA 1945, Mary Alice, baby Carol, MarJoe, James and Pat Davidson