Participant Info

Membership Number
3945
Salutation
First Name
Louvinia Kerns
Middle/Maiden/Previous
Last Name
Jordan
Address 1
c/o Jinh Latham
Address 2
105 Westmore Road
City
Rome
Zip Code
30161
Phone
706-235-5165
Work Code #
2
Date of Birth
05/27/1922
Date of Death
09/09/2022
Deceased At Join?
Comments
After the war she married James Jordan, a veteran of the war in the Pacific, and worked as a bookkeeper for the Wilson Daily Times newspaper in Wilson, North Carolina. She moved to Rome, Georgia, to be close to her daughter after her husband died. She joined the Rome chapter of the American Rosie the Riveter Association in 2010.
Name/Location of Company Worked
Arlington Station, Arlington, VA
Dates of Work
Type of Work
Military code intelligence code breaker,. She interviewed for a job with the Signal Corps, which manages communication systems for the U.S. Military. The Corps transferred her to Washington, D.C., where she passed the exam to become a cryptographic clerk. Known as “codebreakers,” the clerks were mostly women who worked in a top secret office at Arlington Hall Station, a former girl’s school in Virginia. Their duties were to find patterns or sequences in messages intercepted from the Japanese and pass them to the military officials in charge. Jordan made $1,902.00 a year and worked alongside women who had attended Howard University and Vassar College. Jordan later took a job with the Veterans Administration.
Rosie Name if Rb or Rv
Is/Was Rosie a member of ARRA?
Contact Name (Deceased Rosie Contact)
Contact Email Address
Contact Phone Number