IOWA WAVES AT TRAINING SCHOOL
Newly enrolled WAVES from Iowa, still in civilian clothes, and "old timers" attending the radio training schools on the University of Wisconsin campus, meet in one of the lounges at the student Memorial union. John McCraw, left above, is giving new recruits the "lowdown". Pictured are, left to right, McCraw, Carrol Frounfelter of Rockwell City, Ia., Mary Jean Buckley of Des Moines; John Benjamion; Victoria Kaczmarek; Frances Ely of Des Moines; and Marguerite Joyner.
Source: DesMoines Register, February 28, 1943 (photo included)
Des Moines in the Services
Frances Ely, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Ely, 4333 Allison ave., was commissioned an ensign in the WAVES recently upon completion of her training at the naval midshipman's school, Northampton, Mass. She attended Drake university and worked as a clerk at the Mill Owners Insurance Co. before she entered the WAVES.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, February 18, 1944 (photo included)
Lt. (j.g.) Frances E. Ely, USNR, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Ely, 4333 Allison ave., and Leo Charles Houck, son of Mrs. John Houck, and the late Mr. Houck of Reading, Penn., were married at 10 a.m. Thursday in the chapel at Lido Beach Naval center at Lido Beach, Long Island, NY.
Lt L.C. Carter, jr., navy chaplain officiated at theservice.
Mrs. Houck is stationed at Bellmore, Long Island with the United States naval radio security activity. Mr Houck recently was discharged after serving three and a half years in the navy. He was stationed on the USS Pennsylvania.
The couple will live in Baltimore.
Source: The DesMoines Register, April 17, 1946 (photo included)
Lt. (j.g.) Frances Ely Houck, 4333 Allison ave., recently was discharged from the WAVES at New York, NY. She served 40 months in the navy.
Source: The DesMoines Tribune, June 29, 1946
