Des Moines in the Services
Four Des Moines women were graduated recently form the naval training school for yeoman, at Oklahoma A & M university, Stillwater, Okla., and were given the rating of yeoman, third class. They are Edith C. Hedlund, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Hedlund, 2318 York st; Dorothy L. Larsen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Smith, 2102 E. Grand ave.; F. D. Patchin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Patchin, 1835 Mondamin ave., and Jacqueline Lee Tarlton, daughter of Mrs. J. Beck, Route 1.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, February 3, 1944
WAVE VISITS PARENTS
Yeoman Third Class Florence D. Patchin of the WAVES is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.V. Patchin, 1042 Eighteenth st. She is enroute from Washington D. C., to San Francisco.
Source: The Des Moines Register, May 1, 1945
Des Moines in the Services
Florence Patchin, yeoman second class, daughter of Mrs. J.V. Patchin, 1042 Eighteenth st. recently was discharged form the WAVES at Great Lakes, Ill. Miss Patchin was in service 32 months. She served 14 months at Washington, D.C. and a year in Pearl harbor.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, July 29, 1946
