NEW About MEN AND WOMEN IN SERVICE
SPAR Roberta Mayre Eckhart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dewey Eckhart, 500 Sixth avenue, Marion, departed May 31 for “boot” training at the coast guard training station, Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, N.Y. A graduate of McKinley high school in Cedar Rapids, Miss Eckhart was employed by a department store in Cedar Rapids prior to her enlistment on April 5. She is the first member of her family to become one of the armed forces.
Source: Marion Sentinel, June 7, 1945
