Twenty Des Moines women were graduated Saturday from the Navy’s general indoctrination school for WAVES at Iowa State Teachers college, Cedar Falls, Ia.
Some of the graduates will be sent to one of the 13 schools in the nation now being used by the WAVES for advanced training. Others may be immediately assigned to active duty where qualified for such service.
DeMoines women in the class were:
Thesa Marie Boyd, 214 ½ High st.
Marie A. Davidsaver, 1725 York st.
Lenore Margaret Flannery, 1326 E. Thirteenth st.
Mary Catherine Giannobule, 2900 S.W. Ninth st.
Ruby M. Jensen, 1301 Stephenson Way.
Betty Jean Jordan, 1443 Harding road.
Marjorie Alice Osterhout, 1180 Nineteenth st.
Mabel Ann Pearson, 169 E. Broad st.
Martha Warren Powell, 709 Morton ave.
Martina S. Poyseur, 3201 Third st.
Dorothy Marguerite Rousch, 2719 Forty-first place.
Doris Elaine Shoning, 1349 E. Fifteenth st.
Mary Ann Smith, Route 4.
Evelyn Elvera Stansberry, 1305 E. Twelfth st.
Doris Marie Tellis, 2228 E. Walnut st.
Mary Elizabeth Watkins, 932 Thirtieth st.
Roberta Williams, 2323 Fortieth st.
Margaret L. Willis, 428 Pleasant View drive.
Patricia Wolcott, 1607 York st.
Mary Aloyse Wright, 1402 Ninth st.
Source: The Des Moines Tribune, April 5, 1943
Des Moines in the Services
Dorothy M. Roush, storekeeper, first class, in the WAVES, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R.J. Roush, 2719 Fifty-first place, on a 15-day leave. She is stationed at Seattle, Wash.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, December 1, 1944
Mrs. Ralph Roush, 2719 Forty-first place, has returned from the west where she spent two weeks in Seattle, Wash and San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal. On Sept 15 she attended the marriage of her daughter Miss Dorothy M. Roush to Mac New McCullough, jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Mac Neal McCullough of Seattle. The bride served three years in the WAVES. After a wedding trip to Vancouver, the couple will reside in Seattle.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, October 8, 1946
