W.A.C. Bernice Fox returned to Corpus Christi, Monday, after being called home because of the illness of her father, Henry Fox. Staff Sergeant Glen Fox was also home and returned Wednesday morning to Williams Field, Chandler, Arizona, where he is in the air corps. A third member of the Fox family, who is in the service, is Acting First Sergeant Hurles, who is in the Infantry, somewhere in the South Pacific.
Source: LeMars Sentinel, July 30, 1943
NEWS of the MERRILL SERVICE MEN
From Merrill Service Men's News
Bernice A. Fox, SW 3/c, U.N.N.R., A&R Dept. Planning Div., N. A. Stn., Corpus Christi, Tex., has just completed a year at her present assignment, handling aircraft parts used in repairing naval training planes. She is in the Assembly and Repair Department at the World’s largest naval air training base. Bernice is also writing a column for their paper and helping in the production of an all WAVE show. Last October she had a furlough and visited Kenneth at Richmond, Cal., and Glen at his Army post.
Source: The LeMars Sentinel, Friday, April 14, 1944
WWII Bonus File application information, signed by Bernice Aleta Fox
Note: The LeMars Sentinel news article from July 30, 1943, does identify her as: W. A. C. The 1944 newspaper clipping does refer to her as WAVE. The Bonus file states she was NTS, NAS, NTS.....which confirms Navy. "T.H." refers to the Territory of Hawaii.
The early Census years record the widowed father and his children (Bernice A. daughter) living in Merrill, Iowa, Plymouth County.
Bernice Aleta Fox was born June 18, 1913 to Henry W. and Ruby Allen Fox, in Sibley, Iowa. She died Mar. 15, 1983 in CA.
Bernice served in World War II with the U.S. Navy WAVES in the Hawaiian Islands.
Source: ancestry.com
