Trying to get together on words and music is a group of Iowa WAVES gathered in "date" lounge of barracks at Ottumwa naval air station. Dorothy Faye Hinze, Hamburg is at piano. The others are (left to right) Pauline Dryden, Waterloo; Geraldine Kassler, Marion; Phoebe Ann McMillin, Sumner, barracks counselor; Harriet Neal, Greene; Bernice Geronzin, Clinton; Dorothy Appel, Mount Pleasant; Laura Stover, Des Moines; Virginia Chandler, Des Moines; Delores Busse, Britt, and Marjorie Durrell, Leon.
Source: The Des Moines Register, October 15, 1944 (photo included)
Phoebe Ann McMillin Roebken Dempewolf was born Oct. 8, 1921 to Elmer R. and Ruth Bass McMillin. She died Oct 28, 1993 and is buried in Garnavillo Community Cemetery, Garnavillo, IA.
Phoebe served in World War II with the U.S. Navy WAVES in Ottumwa, IA. She was married to Robert C. Roebken and Vincent C. Dempewolf.
Source: ancestry.com
