Sworn in Tuesday afternoon in the navy recruiting office in Mason City was Miss Evelyn Gulliver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Gulliver of Osage. C.R. Piker, Lt. D-V (s) USNR, administered the oath. Miss Gulliver who expects to be called to service March 21 has been a telephone operator at Osage. She was graduated from the Osage high school in 1938. Miss Gulliver has a nephew, Cpl. Donald Peterman, in the service.
Source: Globe-Gazette, Mason City IA - March 1, 1944
Osage -- Five Mitchell county girls had an interesting reunion recently in Chicago. Present were Yeoman Second Class Imogene Love, U.S. navy, member of Waves, who arrived home for a 14-day furlough Saturday at the parental John Love home; Evelyn Gulliver, special telegrapher third class, member of the communications division, U.S. navy, located at Great Lakes naval training center; Betty Samuels, Dixon, Ill., employed in a munitions factory; Geraldine Wright, St. Ansgar, nurse in Tennessee, who came on to her home for a vacation and Elaine Hudson registered nurse taking advance work in surgery at the Cook county hospital, Chicago. Yeoman Love has been in service for a year and a half and has been located at Washington, D.C. in the chief naval operations division.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - June 17, 1945
