Leora Bellmer Signs for WAC
Leora M. Bellmer, 20, 424 East Second Street, Friday has been accepted in Des Moines by the women's army corps becoming Waterloo's youngest WAC recruit.
Miss Bellmer who will report to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., about Cot 23, will be included in the first Iowa company of the all-states division.
Two half brothers, Harold and Roland, served in the first world war and a brother, Pvt. Ivar Bellmer, is now in the army air forces.
Miss Bellmer has been employed in the offices of the Hinson Manufacturing company. Her mother, Mrs. Mabel Bellmer, lives at Dunkerton, Ia.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - October 15, 1943 (photo included)
CLARKSVILLE WOMAN BECOMES WAC HERE
Another WAC recruited at Waterloo's army office is Mrs. Edna Wilson, Clarksville, Ia., who was called to duty this week. She will report for training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., Saturday with Leora M. Bellmer, 424 East Second street, and will be included in the first Iowa company of all-states division.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - October 19, 1943
Dunkerton -- Cpl. Leora Bellmer, daughter of Mrs. Mabel Bellmer, who has been in the service for two years, and who was stricken with polio a few weeks ago, is at the U.S. Naval hospital at Corvallis, Oregon. She is partially recovering and is walking a little each day. Her brother, Sgt. Iavan Bellmer, has been discharged after serving in the army three years. He is working at Raths and lives at 324 West Seventh, Waterloo.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 6, 1945
Dunkerton -- Cpl. Leora M. Bellmer has been transferred from the naval hospital at Corvallis, Ore., to Maddigan General hospital at Fort Lewis, Wash. For the last four months, she has been suffering from infantile paralysis. She had partially recovered, but the trip has confined her to bed again.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - January 24, 1946
