tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53032683145030188082026-05-29T00:35:50.519-07:00A place to remember WASP who have taken their final flight. From WASP ON THE WEB, published by Wings Across AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger224125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-33988351025204853162023-01-10T13:25:00.003-08:002023-01-11T19:10:11.898-08:00

 All-American patriot, artist, designer, entrepreneur, flower arranger, chef, and joyful servant, Sunny Lou Starling, was carried on the wings of angels to the arms of her savior, Jesus Christ, on Friday, January 6, 2023. She once said her mission was to “Gather and feed all you can, as often as you can, because you never know if you’re feeding an angel.” Well done, Sunny Lou,

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0China Spring, TX 76633, USA31.6522133 -97.30796383.3419794638211542 -132.46421379999998 59.962447136178845 -62.151713799999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-30614518931406103482022-02-28T12:08:00.002-08:002022-02-28T17:00:32.163-08:00

 WASP Deanie Bishop Parrish, 44-W-4"Failure isn't failure unless you let it be.  It's simply a change in direction.  Just count your many blessings move on.  With God's help, anything is possible!"Deanie Bishop Parrish passed away peacefully in her home in Waco, Texas, on February 24, 2022, just one day shy of her 100th birthday. She met every challenge of her

Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0Waco, texas 76710-1.1728835 -123.8704067-77.433906905556427 95.50459330000001 75.088139905556432 16.754593299999996tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-59834859103585762462018-08-17T14:55:00.002-07:002018-08-18T09:15:35.369-07:00

"Jacqueline Cochran was looking for WASP.  They told me I would have to be interviewed and they would contact me when they came to the Wichita area.  But I didn’t wait for that.  I went down to Houston for my interview, to speed things up.  And I think that’s one of the smartest things I did."      WASP Lucile Doll Wise       43-W-7

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"My first flight was with a barnstormer at the age of five.  I loved it!  I also tried to 'fly' out of the barn loft with an umbrella.  This was less than successful..."  WASP Jean Terrell McCreery, 44-10 The indomitable Marguerite Jean Terrell Moreo McCreery has "...slipped the surly bonds of Earth. And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings."  

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WASP Frances Ellis Winter Brookings, 100 years old, died at Forest Glen, Springfield, Ohio, on April 12, 2018.  'Fran' was born in DuBois, Pennsylvania, on July 2, 1917, the fourth child and third daughter of Maude Elizabeth Baker Winter and Francis Ellis Winter. At an early age, her family moved to Erie, Pennsylvania, where she lived until 1934 when she moved to Hot Springs,

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"Go!  Have fun!"   WASP Betty Heinrich Berkstresser, 43--W-4 WASP Betty Lee Heinrich Berkstresser was born May 12, 1919, in Houston TX.  She peacefully passed in her sleep and took her last flight on July 1, 2018.  She was 99. Betty was a native Houstonian.  She attended Travis and Browning Elementary, James Hogg Middle School, La Porte High School and was a

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"I got bit by the (flying) bug. When I got down, there was no way they could keep me on the ground."         WASP Ethel Louise Jones Sheffler The youngest of 6 children, Ethel Louise was born on January 20, 1921 to Ralph and Carrie (Auer) Jones.  Growing up on her parents' farm in Heyworth, IL, she spent her time outdoors, doing farm chores and enjoying nature.&

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"My favorite word?  Oh, honor. That to me is more than a word.   That’s a way of life.  I mean, I’d die for honor.   That sounds melodramatic maybe, but, that’s how I feel." WASP Shutsy Reynolds Pioneering woman pilot, silversmith, lapidarist, silk screener, airbrush artist and humanitarian Florence Shutsy Reynolds took her last flight on March 15, 2018,

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“It seemed to me that there were very clear issues in World War II, and I wanted to be part of it...to tell the truth, I really wanted to be a hero.”            WASP Carla Howard Horowitz Carla Howard Horowitz was born May 28, 1922, in Chicago.  It was there she began her schooling until her second year of high school,  when she attended The

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"I just put my money into flying lessons. Because I just felt in my heart that sooner or later they would have to rely on girls.   ...flying is just - you LOVE it, irregardless of what kind of an airplane you are in." WASP Marylyn Peyton Marylyn E. (Myers) Holcomb Peyton, passed away on January 20, 2018, a month short of her 94th birthday, in Sun City West, Arizona. Marylyn was

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"After seeing the July 19, 1943 issue of Life Magazine, and the article on the pilot's training at Avenger Field, I decided this was the war effort I wished to pursue. ...   After my first lesson, I was hooked!                                          WASP Doris Wanty WASP Doris

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"I was crazy about flying and as a little kid, even through grade school, I built model planes."                    WASP Roby Anderson, 44-W-4  Meriem Lucille Roby Anderson lived her life as a feisty, independent Flint Hills rancher up until a few months ago, when she suffered a debilitating fall. The 96-year-old was tough as nails and

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"When I was a freshman at Smith (College), my brother, then enrolled in his university's CPTP program, had talked his instructor into taking me up.  The brief flight set the course for my future."                   WASP Gloria Heath Aviation pioneer and longtime Greenwich, CT resident, Gloria W. Heath, passed on peacefully at her home on

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Reposted from the National Archives A WASP’s Story Posted on December 20, 2014 by hilaryparkinsonToday’s post comes from Ashley Mattingly, an archivist at the National Archives in St. Louis. The year was 1943, and Elizabeth “Betty” Maxine Chambers was a young mother and a widow. Betty’s husband, Army pilot Lt. Robert William Chambers, had died in 1942 when his P-38F Lightening

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Lois Kay Gott Chaffey ~ July 18, 1920 – August 21, 2017 The timing of Kay Chaffey’s goodbye was fitting. It was dark for a moment that Monday morning, August 21, as the sun was disappearing behind the moon for a total eclipse. Kay passed away in Oregon where she spent the final years of her life. The sun didn’t come back to shine on her that day. She’s gone, and will be greatly missed by so

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Mary Jean (Barnes) Sturdevant passed away at the age of 95, on June 24, 2017 in Graham, WA. She was a 46 year resident of Spanaway, WA.   Mary was born September 28, 1921 in Bend, Oregon. She lived quite an interesting and exciting life she was active in her community, serving her country, and devoted to her family.  Mary was a Tacoma Lariette Drill Team and riding club

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“I got checked out as pilot in the C-47 and co-piloted in the B-17, B-25 and got my instrument rating flying a B-24 from California to Florida.  My instructor told me that I flew better than 95 percent of the male pilots he checked out.”   Adeline Ellison, WASP1 WASP Adeline Wolak Ellison took her final flight on June 10, 2017.  She was born September 26, 1919 in Chicago,

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"When I heard about the WASP program, I decided I wanted to learn to fly, which meant cashing in my bonds and taking leave from work."                            Marge Neyman Martin, 44-7  Margaret E. “Marge” Martin, long-time resident of Oak Harbor, passed away January 29, 2017. &nbsp

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“I became interested in flying when my father dug deep for the cost of a flight in a small plane that landed outside of Whitesboro, Texas.”   Kathryn Miles, 44-5     Katheryn Lynn Boyd Miles was born in Gunter Texas, 50 miles north of Dallas, on January 9, 1921.   Her parents, Elizabeth and Arthur Edgar Boyd, were pioneer educators, &

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"Love and family closeness and respect can never be outdone by anything else.  It's the lynchpin....holds everything together."               WASP Muriel Virginia Kiester Martin, 44-W-5 Early morning, on November 4, 2016, Muriel Kiester Martin made her final ascent. Imagine her soaring, happy, and free, looking down upon her

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"I was 7 years old when the WASP were disbanded and my aunt Winnie came home from the war. And shortly thereafter, some other WASP came to Miami and they became the part and parcel of our lives...They were extraordinary."          Janet Reno,WASP Champion and niece of WASP Winnie Wood, 43-7 The honorable Janet Reno, former Attorney General of the United States of

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"I pumped gas, made sandwiches, served beer and soft drinks, and worked on planes.  I got my meals and my room--an old army cot in an old shack; I usually took it outside and slept under the stars.  The 'airport' consisted of a very rough strip in the desert with a couple of rundown hangars. The CAA eventually shut it down until the airstrip was cleared of borders and smoothed into

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WASP Madelyn Marie Taylor Eggleston, a graduate of Class 44-W-1,  was born Saturday, June 7, 1919 in Red Oak, Iowa.   She was the daughter of the late Lawrence B. (Cap) Taylor and Blanche Beeson (Taylor).  When she was 9 years old, her father took Madelyn to a local airport to watch an air show. The young girl persuaded him to let her go for a ride. &

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Flying high: Boulder woman served as a WASP in WWII Grace "Betty" Lotowycz dies at the age of 99 By Mitchell Byars Staff WriterPO STED:   04/23/2016 05:10:01 PM MDT | UPDATED:   ABOUT 19 HOURS AGODaily Camera / File photo) Despite being raised in the 1920s and 1930s, Grace "Betty" Lotowycz never let anyone else's ideas of what a woman should be shape her

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BY BILL LINDELOF blindelof@sacbee.com Captola “Cappy” Johnson, a coal miner’s daughter who went on to fly during World War II as a pioneering aviator, died March 18 at a Folsom hospital after a short illness. She was about a month shy of her 96th birthday. The longtime Fair Oaks resident was one of the approximate 1,100 women in the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) program. In 2010,

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