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
Zip Code
89005
Phone
702-293-6857
Work Code #
1, 6
Date of Birth
04/05/1924
Date of Death
07/08/2020
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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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