Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 3945
- Newsletter
- No
- Salutation
- First Name
- Louvinia Kerns
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Last Name
- Jordan
- Address 1
- c/o Jinh Latham
- Address 2
- 105 Westmore Road
- City
- Rome
- State
- GA
- Zip Code
- 30161
- Phone
- 706-235-5165
- Email
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- 2
- State Membership
- GA
- Status
- 1
- Date of Birth
- 05/27/1922
- Date of Death
- 09/09/2022
- Deceased At Join?
- 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.
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- Is/Was Rosie a member of ARRA?
- Contact Name (Deceased Rosie Contact)
- Contact Email Address
- Contact Phone Number
- Contact Relationship