Miss Anne Mulford, of Los Angeles, Calif., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Mulford, in Kingsley. Miss Mulford has enlisted in the Waves and is waiting a call to report for duty.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, March 14, 1944
Smooth Sailors
Iowa WAVES Learn the Ropes At Cedar Falls
More than 9000 members of the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Navy have finished their work at the naval training school on the Iowa State teachers college campus in Cedar Falls since the WAVES training school was established there in December, 1942. Among them have been many Iowans, as well as young women from all other states, from Alaska, the Virgin Islands, Mexico, Panama, Puerto Rico and Canada. The Iowans pictured are in the class now completing its training.
Three Iowa trainees enjoying a stroll across the green campus during a liberty period are, from left, Clara Lou Morris of Gravity, Virginia Lampe of Iowa City and Harriet Ann Mulford of Kingsley. Each of the girls is a Seaman, second class.
Source: Des Moines Register, July 30, 1944 (photo included)
The approaching marriage of Miss Harriett Ann Mulford, yeoman first class, U.S.N., to Robert C. Simmons, chief yeoman of Corvallis, Oregon, is announced by the parents of the bride-elect, Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Mulford of Kingsley. The wedding will take place August 11, in Seattle, Washington, where Miss Mulford and her fiancé are now stationed.
Source: LeMars Semi-Weekly Sentinel, August 6, 1946
***Further Research:
Harriet Ann Mulford Simmons was born Dec. 26, 1923 to Harold A. and Fairy Flo Paulin Mulford. She died Oct. 31, 2012 and is buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, OR. She was married to Robert Chester Simmons. Robert was born Aug. 18, 1921 to Loren C. and Ruby E. Buckingham Simmons. He died Mar. 20, 2005 and is buried in Willamette National Cemetery, Portland, OR.
Source: ancestry.com
