Mary “Marty” Anna Martin Wyall 44-W-10 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Mary Anna Martin was born on January 24, 1922, in Liberty, Indiana to Reverend Sumner L. and Bernice Smith Martin. In 1939, she graduated from Shields High School in Seymour, […]
Dorothy A. Lucas 44-W-7 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Dorothy A. Lucas, born on December 4, 1922, in Norfolk, Virginia, was the youngest of four children. Despite the challenges of the Great Depression and her family’s constant relocations due […]
Gloria Heath 44-W-7 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Gloria Heath was born on May 7, 1922, in New York City to Royal Vale and Lillian Hart Heart. She graduated from The Putney School in 1939 and from Smith […]
Rosa Charlyne Creger 44-W-10 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Charlyne Creger was born on December 24, 1918, in Noble, Oklahoma to her parents, Charles and Rosa Creger. Her father worked as a blacksmith and played the Tennessee Bluegrass fiddle, […]
Shirley Chase Kruse 44-W-6 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Shirley Chase Kruse was born on June 22, 1922, in Kearny, New Jersey and grew up in Newark. Her father worked as a Wall Street Accountant, while her mother was […]
Nell “Mickey” Stevenson Bright 43-W-7 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-28-2023
Nell Stevenson was born on June 20, 1921, in Canyon, Texas. When she was eight years old, her father paid a dollar for her to ride in a World War […]
Margaret Peggy Kocher 43-W-6 | WASP in the Spotlight 10-1-2022
Margaret Peggy Kocher was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1921 to Willard and Margaret Grishkin Helburn. She was the youngest of three children – two sons Nick and Peter, and […]
Dorothy Fulton Slinn WAFS | WASP in the Spotlight 5-4-2022
Dorothy Fulton was born October 14, 1918, in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey to Harry Leroy and Johanna Crystal Jensen Fulton. As a young child, Amelia Earhart was Dorothy’s heroine and […]
Nadine Ramsey 43-W-5 | WASP in the Spotlight 4-29-2022
Nadine Ramsey was born on August 28, 1911, to Nelle and Claude Ramsey. Nelle and Claude settled in Carlyle Illinois and Claude went to work in the oil fields as […]
Betty Heinrich Berkstresser 43-W-4 | WASP in the Spotlight 1-12-2022
Betty was born May 12, 1919, to Rhea and Joseph Heinrich in Houston, Texas. A native Houstonian, she attended Travis and Browning Elementary, James Hogg Middle School, La Porte High […]