Betty Jane Mahannah, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Mahannah, has been accepted for enlistment in the Waves.
Source: The Williamsburg Shopper, October 19, 1944
All Waves collect snapshots to remind them of home ties and no exception are these four girls. All are seaman second class and all from Iowa. Left to right are Betty Jane Mahannah of North English, Norma Jean Mary Fischer of Walnut, Lily Cleone Winey of Mount Vernon and Jean Ardis Wigton of Grimes.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - April 15, 1945 (photo included)
Betty Jane Mahannah, Y 3/c, and Esther Feldaverd, S 1/c, returned to the WAVE post in Washington D.C., after spending their leaves here.
Source: The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, March 14, 1946
