Salute by a WAVE to 5 Recruits
OFF TO JOIN THE WAVES, the five young women in civilian clothes in the picture take a lesson in saluting from Yeoman Third Class Maurene Munger, 1921 First avenue SE. The Waves-to-be are (left to right) Phyllis Gress, 203 First avenue SW; Betty Brown, 1220 Third avenue SE; Doris Fink, 1406 First street NW; Gertrude Hoyle, 2208 Fruitland boulevard SW, and Claire Roberts, 1015 Third avenue SE. Yeoman Munger, home on leave, will leave soon for duty at the Atlanta, Ga., naval air base. The picture was taken Monday afternoon as the 5 entrained for Des Moines.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, May 18, 1943 (photo included)
Service Couple of Marion Married
Announcement has been made of the marriage of Yeoman (2/c) Claire L. Roberts, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll F. Roberts of Marion, to Sgt. Lloyd W. Fernow, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Fernow of Marion.
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Following her graduation from Springville high school, Mrs. Fernow joined the Waves. Sgt. Fernow was graduated from Marion high school. After serving 30 months in the south Pacific, he holds three presidential unit citations, the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon, the Philippine Liberation ribbon and the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf clusters. Mrs. Fernow is stationed at the Great Lakes naval station in Chicago, Ill., and Sgt. Fernow is stationed at Madison, Wis.
Source: Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 24, 1945 (photo included)
