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WV. Women military veterans

 Record Group
Identifier: WV

Found in 16 Collections and/or Records:

Julia "Judy" Houk Cooley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0452
Content Description

The collection includes digitized photographs of Cooley in uniform, circa 1944-1947; Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) garrison cap insignia and collar insignia; a 12 March 2009 oral history transcript.

Dates: circa 1944-1947

Geneva Spratt Craig Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0505
Content Description

Geneva Spratt Craig (b. 1919), of Dysartsville, North Carolina, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1943 to 1946.

This collection includes an oral history transcript, 18 November 2010; various scanned photographs.

Dates: 2010 November 18

Patricia Keegan Delaney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0209
Content Description 1 May 2001 oral hIstory transcript; Navy WAVES Newsletter "Sounding Off" dated June 22, 1943; photocopy of Booklet "How to serve your county in the WAVES of SPARS" (not dated) Patricia is photographed in this publication; Marching to Victory Booklet of songs and hymns for enlisted Navy WAVES servicemembers; various newspaper clippings 1943-1945; photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt with Navy Captian during WAVES review,1942; photograph of Patricia in front of the Northampton Tavern while...
Dates: 1942-1945

Ellen Mercer Diming Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0229
Content Description

The collection includes a photograph of Diming in her WAVES overcoat and biographical information recorded during her oral history interview, handwritten.

Dates: circa 1944-1946

Marilyn Roberts (Bobbi) Earp Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0174
Content Description

The collection includes a 2000 June oral history transcript; Newspaper article photocopy from Whiteville, NC, 1989; portrait photograph of Marilyn in her Navy WAVES uniform; photographs of Marilyn and her husband during their service, 1945.

Dates: circa 1944-1949

Mary Ann Henning Moore Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0102
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 11 July 1999; various Navy military papers, 1944-1946; a portrait photograph of Moore in Navy WAVES uniform, circa 1945; a transcription from "Virginia Society Dames in the Military," 1991.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Erma Hughes Kirkpatrick Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0213
Content Description The collection includes an oral history transcript, 12 May 2001; Artifact Box contains: 1 ID Bracelet, lapel pin, collar devices, devices, brass buttons,sleeve stripe braid, V-Mail, 1944; portrait photograph of Erma in Navy WAVES uniform, 1944; various photographs of Erma during service, 1943-1946; Midshipman school yearbook, 1943-44; Naval Reserve ID Card; Official Service Certificates, 1943-1946; Navy Benefits information; Havelock WAVES Newsletter, 1943; New Testament pocket bible; WAVES...
Dates: 1943-2001

Winifred Taylor Kuehn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0127
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 2 December 1999; "As You Were" magazine, 1994; Navy WAVES book by Elizabeth Allen Butler, 1988; Naval Reserve Midshipman's school song sheet copy; WAVES Sing-A-Long booklet from 50th Anniversary Celebration, circa 1992; photographs of Kuehn in WAVES uniform and gathering with local WAVES group, circa 1944.

Dates: circa 1944-1999

Nell Smith Lutz Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0160
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 23 March 2003; various photographs of Lutz's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency (WAVES) Navy, 1943-1945; personal correspondence during her WAVES service, 1943-1944, along with Navy papers and newspaper clippings, 1943-2003; DVD video interview by Bob Gaines "The Vanishing Generation."

Dates: circa 1943-2003

Ruth Mildred Marshburn Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0227
Content Description

The collection includes a scrapbook, 1944-1946, 1958; Insignia Patches, circa 1944-1946; WAVES 25th National Convention Charm, 1967.

Dates: 1944-1967

Rosetta McMahon Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0393
Content Description

The collection includes an oral history transcript, 17 April 2007; scan of portrait photograph of McMahon in Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) uniform, circa 1945.

Dates: 1945, 2007

Eleanor Rigney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0101
Content Description

The collection includes The Havelock newsletters, photographs, military papers, biographical materials, Identification Tag, 1943; Good Conduct Medal,1946; Patches,1943-1946; Ribbons, 1943-1946; "Ruptured Duck" Discharge Pin, 1946.

Dates: circa 1943-1951

Irja Miriam Ripatte Scrapbook

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0351
Content Description

Scrapbook with Waves service photographs; newspaper clippings , circa 1942-1943; Headshot of Irja Miriam Ripatte wearing a WAVES service dress blue uniform and soft brimmed enlisted cap, not dated.

Dates: circa 1942-1943

Louise Ross Yegge Collection

 Collection
Identifier: WV 0242
Content Description

The collection includes various photographs of Louise and husband, John, circa 1943-1945; an oral history transcript, 25 January 2002.

Dates: 1943-1945