FORMER RESIDENT OF HUMBOLDT IS LADY LEATHERNECK
LaVeta Edge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Edge of Waterloo, has enlisted in the Marine corps women's reserve. She expects to be called to duty about March 25, and will report at Hunter college, New York City, where the first class for enlisted personnel will start.
Miss Edge has been employed in the office of Montgomery Ward and Company at Waterloo for the past two years. She is a graduate of West high school.
Her father, J.E. Edge, ia lieutenant in the civil air patrol; and her brother, Lt Bruce Edge, is with the ferry command at Love Field, Dallas, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Edge are former residents of Humboldt.
Source: The Humboldt Independent, March 16, 1943
Waterloo Girl Marine in Honor Guard
Marine Sgt. LaVeta Edge, of Waterloo, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Edge, 218 Allen street, is shown at left as a member of the honor guard at the christening of a marine corps transport plane, "The Lady Leatherneck" at Washington National airport.
Sergeant Edge has been stationed in Washington, D.C. since May as a civilian pay clerk.
Maj. Ruth Cheney Streeter, director of the marine corps women's reserve is pictured at the top of the platform swinging a champagne bottle, while Maj. Harold F. Brown and Brig. Gen Louis F. Woods, Marine corps officers, look on.
Honor guards shown are from left to right, Sergeant Edge, Pfc. Kay Schusster; Sgt. Marie Anderson; and Cpl. Grace Blanshan, Ames Ia.
Source: The Waterloo Courier, October 10, 1943 (photo included)
Second Lt. LaVeta Edge, member of the marine corps auxiliary, is spending a seven-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Edge, 218 Allen street. She is stationed in Philadelphia, Pa.
Source: The Waterloo Courier, December 26, 1944
At her desk in the marine corps general supply division at Philadelphia, Pa. is Second Lt. LaVeta H. Edge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Edge, 218 Allen street. "If you could walk through warehouses here," she writes, "you would see the equipment being packed for overseas and know that some marine win a foxhole will be mighty happy when it arrives."
Source: The Waterloo Courier, April 29, 1945 (photo included)
