Elma -- Miss Eileen Bigley, daughter of Mrs. Loretta Bigley of Elma, left the last week for Hunter college, New York, having been called to active duty in the Waves. Before enlisting she was employed as secretary to the superintendent of transportation at the Nebraska Ordnance plant at Lincoln.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 3, 1944
Mrs. John McGouty, 619 Jersey S.E. has had as her guests Miss Eileen Bigley and Miss Alice Wilkinson, both seamen 1/C in the WAVES, stationed at Great Lakes, Ill., Miss Gertrude Glennon of New York and Mrs Loretta Bigley of Elma.
Source: The Globe-Gazette, Mason City, IA - September 5, 1945
