Des Moines -- Five recruits for the army's army auxiliary corps, sworn in at the recruiting station here Tuesday, included: Ioan Yenter, 24, Iowa City: Margery Pickett, 27, Mason City; Fannie Burkoff, 23, Waterloo; Mary Jane Larson, Whiting; and Naomi Van Steenberge, Burke.
Miss Yenter has been a state health department employee at Iowa City and Miss Pickett won first honours in the bassoon division of the state high school music contest in 1933. Miss Burkoff is a former beauty operator.
Source: Globe-Gazette, Mason City, IA - Sept. 30, 1942
WOMEN IN SERVICE
Corp. Ioan Yenter of Ft. Meade, Md., is passing a 10-day furlough visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. Murray Yenter, in Oxford, and with friends in Iowa City.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen, May 20, 1943
IOAN YENTER WED THURSDAY MORNING
Service Took Place In Church at Oxford
Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Ioan Yenter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Yenter of Oxford, to Guy Lombardo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Lombardo of Kansas City, Mo. The ceremony took place at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Mary's church in Oxford. The Rev. Kelley officiated at the double ring ceremony.
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Mrs. Lombardo was graduated from Oxford high school and Brown's Business college. She has been in the WAC for the last three years.
The bridegroom, a graduate of Manual Training high school, is assistant manager of a wholesale tobacco company.
Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen, November 16, 1945
