Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 4506
- Salutation
- First Name
- Ruth "Kitty" May
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- West Heard
- Last Name
- Taylor
- Address 1
- 1308 Marwood St
- Address 2
- City
- Boulder City
- State
- NV
- Zip Code
- 89005
- Phone
- 702-293-6857
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- 1, 6
- State Membership
- NV
- Status
- 1
- Date of Birth
- 04/05/1924
- Date of Death
- 07/08/2020
- Deceased At Join?
- Comments
- After graduation from Horlick High in Racine, she went to California and worked on aircraft for the war effort at Boeing. She was a member of the American Rosie the Riveters Association. Ruth returned to Wisconsin to join the Navy in 1943, where she received further training as an aircraft instrument technician, receiving an AMM1 classification, and worked on aircraft installing and fine tuning gyroscopic instruments (directional finders, altimeters & bomb sights) inside the aircraft. She married her first husband, Richard V. Heard, while they were stationed in Florida. Upon their discharge from the service in 1945, they returned to Wisconsin where she worked as a lifeguard on Lake Michigan.
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- Rosie Name if Rb or Rv
- Is/Was Rosie a member of ARRA?
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