Their packing completed and their final farewells taken, the three girls shown check out at the desk in the green room lounge at Bartlett hall. Left to right are Jeanne Eileen Nicolaysen of Mechanicsville, Doris J. White of Colo and Barbara Ann Chapman of Clarion. They represent one of the classes of 1,000 Waves who received training at the Waves school in Cedar Falls.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - April 15, 1945 (photo included)
Fred Winthrop and Emma Matilda Petry Chapman Family - Wright Co.
Barbara Ann Chapman was born Nov. 7, 1924. She died Mar. 28, 2015 and is buried in Saint Mary's Cemetery, Neillsville, WI. She was married to Kenneth Knutson Nov. 1, 1948 in Des Moines, IA.
Barbara served in the U.S. Navy WAVES at the Naval Air Stations in Norman, OK and Glenview, IL.
Sources: “Ordinary Heroes”, by Judge Newt Draheim, Chapter 13 - and ancestry.com
