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 […]
Meriem Roby Anderson 44-W-4 | WASP in the Spotlight 11-13-2021
Meriem Lucille Roby was born July 12, 1921, in Eureka, Kansas to E.C. and Leota (Shambaugh) Roby. Her parents were prosperous ranchers and were able to spend the fall and […]
Elizabeth “Betty” Wall Strohfus 44-W-1 | WASP in the Spotlight 3-20-2021
Betty was born in Faribault, Minnesota on November 15, 1919, to Daniel and Julia Anne Wall. She was one of six children in their family. She graduated high school in […]
Marion “Tibby” R. Tibbetts 43-W-6 | WASP in the Spotlight 6-1-2020
Marion R. Tibbetts was born January 5, 1915, in Whitman, Massachusetts to Rayman and Mabel Taber Tibbetts. She had on older sister. Even though Claire was 10 years older than […]
Eleanor “Mickey” McLernon Brown 44-W-9 | WASP in the Spotlight 1-25-2020
Eleanor McLernon was born in Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, November 3, 1922. Her parents had both gone to Tampico in the early 1900s and met and married there in 1913. Eleanor […]
Patricia Hanley Shields 43-W-4 | WASP in the Spotlight 11-9-2019
Patricia, the eldest of four children, was born July 26, 1920, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She enjoyed flying which she referred to as her favorite “hobby”. On April 26, 1942, at […]