She's a Wave
Hawkeye, Ia. -- Miss Caryl Elizabeth Jones, has passed her qualifying tests and has received her call to report as a member of the Waves Thursday at Hunter college, New York. She is the daughter of Mrs. Ella Jones, was graduated from Hawkeye High school and attended Upper Iowa university. She taught two years in rural schools and has been employed the last year at the Burlington ordnance plant. Miss Jones' brother, Eugene, is a naval aviation cadet at Corpus Christi, Tex., and her father, the late Gilbert Jones, was a world war I veteran.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - July 26, 1943 (photo included)
Hawkeye - Wave Caryl Jones, storekeeper second class, daughter of Mrs Ella Jones, is ill and in a hospital at Great Lakes, Ill. She entered service July 27, 1943, and took her basic training at Hunter College, New York She was then sent to Milledgeville, Ga., where she was graduated in November, 1943, and them was sent to Washington, D.C., for further training. She has been stationed at Great Lakes, Ill. since Sept. 1, 1944. She has been in the hospital the last three weeks. She attended the Hawkeye pubic school and Upper Iowa university and taught in rural schools here before entering service.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - December 3, 1944
Chief Storekeeper Caryl Jones of the Great Lakes Naval training station was a week end guest here at the home of her mother, Mrs. Ella Jones, and Kay and Lt (jg) Eugene Jones.
Source: Oelwein Daily Register, February 28, 1946
Caryl Jones Engagement Is Announced by Mother
Hawkeye -- Mrs. Ella Jones has announced the engagement of her daughter, Carol Jones to L. Vernon Crum, Jr., son of Mr and Mrs Crum of Spring Valley, Minn The wedding date gas not been set.
Miss Jones is a graduate of the Hawkeye high school and served in the Waves for three years.
Mr. Crum served in the Army in the European theater for four years.
Both are now attending Upper Iowa University at Fayette.
Source: Fayette County Leader, March 6, 1947
