Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 1325
- Salutation
- Mrs
- First Name
- Grace DeRoches
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Last Name
- Davis
- Address 1
- 7524 19th Avenue NE
- Address 2
- City
- Seattle
- State
- WA
- Zip Code
- 98115
- Phone
- 206-523-8814
- luckygrace@att.net
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- 1
- State Membership
- WA
- Status
- 1
- Date of Birth
- 06/24/1919
- Date of Death
- 04/28/2019
- Deceased At Join?
- Comments
- In the summer of 1943, Grace travelled to Seattle with a friend. Though she had hoped to start a career in business, they both found jobs at the Boeing Company. She started washing and buffing aircraft wings but was soon promoted to spot welding, which was a job normally reserved for men. She said “It was a bit of a lark, but hard work, quite the change from teaching.” Her contribution to the war effort was recognized in the 2012 “Rosie the Riveter” calendar, published by Washington Women in Trades, an organization which recognizes that the “Rosies” prepared the way for women to work in trades in the present day. http://www.wawomenintrades.com/ Grace met her future husband, Stan, at a boarding house where they were both staying. They fell in love, married on December 8, 1943, and moved to an apartment at the foot of Queen Anne Hill. After the war, Grace worked at the Naval Station on Pier 91 until 1947 when they moved to Lake City north of Seattle.
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