Joins SPARS
Miss Lillian Good, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Good of 517 West Third street, Davenport, who was inducted into the SPARS on March 17, in Des Moines, and is to report to Hunter college, the Bronx, New York City, on May 17, is being honored at a dinner party this evening at the home of her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Widdington of 815 Tremont avenue, Davenport. She is a graduate of the Moline high school and has been employed in the mailing section of the Rock Island arsenal.
There will be covers for 14 at the attractive table, centered with a bouquet of roses. Among the guests will be Mrs Nellie Taylor, of Illinois and Miss Irma Jansen, of DeWitt, who has also joined the SPARS and will leave early Sunday morning for New York with Miss Good.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - May 12, 1943 (photo included)
Accepted in WAVES -- Miss Lillian R. Good, 517 West Third street, and Miss Irma M. Jansen, DeWitt, have returned from Des Moines where they were accepted in the WAVES, naval women's auxiliary, after being examined easlier in the week. They will wait call to begin training at the WAVES school in Cedar Falls, Ia.
Source: Quad-City Times, October 18, 1943 (photo included)
Two sisters in the service who are enjoying a visit at their parental home, are Lillian Church, seaman, first class , in the SPARS and Rolene E. Kent, yeoman, second class in the WAVES, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. R. Rex Good of 416 Brady street, Davenport.
The two sisters and Rolene Kent's husband, Justus R. Kent, motor machinist mate, first class, who is stationed at San Diego, Calif. were honored at a family dinner at the home of the girl's grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Widdrington, 815 Tremont avenue, Sunday.
Covers were laid for about 20 out-of-town guest including William Good of Cold Water, Mich, who arrived last Tuesday and left Sunday night, a grandfather of Seaman Church and Yeoman Kent, and also Miss Vivian Jackson of Chicago.
Yeoman Kent is stationed in Washington, D.C. She will leave Wednesday for the east, and her husband will leave Tuesday for California.
Seaman Church who is on a ten-day leave will leave Tuesday morning for Long Beach, Calif., where she has been stationed for 22 months. Her husband, Walter D. Church, electrician, first class, is in the South Pacific area.
Source: The Daily Times, April 30, 1945
