Rosemary Fleming Awaits Waves Call
Cedar Falls -- Rosemary Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E.A. Fleming, 723 West Eighteenth street, has been inducted into the Waves and is waiting her call to training.
Miss Fleming expects to be called to Smith college in Northampton, Mass, sometime soon She is a graduate of Cedar Falls high school and Iowa State Teachers College, where she received her bachelor of arts degree. She has been teaching social studies at Kanawha, Ia. this year.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - March 22, 1943
Rosemary Fleming, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Everett A. Fleming, 723 West Eighteenth street, Cedar Falls, received her commission as ensign, USNR, and has been assigned to the naval training school at Mount Holyoke college, South Hadley, Mass., for communications training. Ensign Fleming received her B.A. degree from Iowa State Teachers college and taught in the Kanawha, Ia., high school.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - October 4, 1943 (photo included)
In a double ring ceremony Saturday afternoon, Ensign Rosemary Fleming and Lt. Herman S. Tharp were married, with a navy chaplain officiating in the navy chapel at New York City.
The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Fleming, 723 West 18th street, Cedar Falls, and the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. M. S. Tharp, 210 Summit avenue, Waterloo.
Graduated from Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, where she was affiliated with Pi Gamma Mu and Gamma Theta Epsilon societies, the bride taught at Kanawha, Ia., high school before she enlisted in the Waves. She received her commission at Smith college in Northampton, Mass., and her training in communications at Mt. Holyoke college, South Hadley, Mass. At the present time she is in the office of communications of the naval air station at Minneapolis.
Lieutenant Tharp was also graduated from Iowa State Teachers college. He completed his training at the army and navy engine school in Hartford, Conn., and is permanently assigned to the 40th service group now stationed at Lakeland, Fla. Before his enlistment in the army air force engineers, he was employed at the Waterloo Y.M.C.A.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA – Sunday, March 12, 1944
Kanawha Teacher, Now in WAVES, Is Married to Lt. Herman Tharp
Kanawha -- Word has been received of the marriage of Ensign Rosemary Fleming of the U.S. Naval Reserves and Lt. Herman Tharp, which took place in New York City. The bride's home is in Cedar Falls, and she was a teacher in the Kanawha school last year. She joined the WAVES last spring and is now stationed in Minneapolis. The bridegroom's home was in Waterloo. He has been called for overseas service, and his wife has returned to her duties in Minneapolis.
Source: The Globe-Gazette, Mason City, IA - March 28, 1944
Rosemary Fleming Tharp was born Jan. 26, 1921 to Everett Arthur and Vessie E. Mitchell Fleming. She died Sept. 27, 1994 and is buried in Oakland Cemetery, Iowa City, IA.
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