Participant Info

Membership Number
6304
Salutation
First Name
Cora
Middle/Maiden/Previous
Virginia "Ginger" Lam
Last Name
Zila
Address 1
3121 Tama Street SE #481
Address 2
City
Cedar Rapids
Zip Code
52403
Phone
319-362-9306
Work Code #
10
Date of Birth
02/26/1927
Date of Death
Deceased At Join?
Comments
After completing a Virginia trade school course in electric welding, she worked as a combination welder at the Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland. She mastered acetylene and electric welding and was familiar with pipe, cast iron, sheet steel and alloys. She worked standing on the ground, as well as suspended in the air to work on a water tank. After the war, she became the first and only female welder at Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, IA.
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