Participant Info
- Membership Number
- 6741
- Newsletter
- Yes
- Salutation
- First Name
- Louise
- Middle/Maiden/Previous
- Ruth
- Last Name
- Lewis
- Address 1
- 350 Calloway Dr #314
- Address 2
- City
- Bakersfield
- State
- CA
- Zip Code
- 93312
- Phone
- 661-587-6002
- Email
- Code
- RO
- Work Code #
- 6
- State Membership
- CA
- Status
- Alive
- Date of Birth
- 03/12/1925
- Date of Death
- Deceased At Join?
- Name/Location of Company Worked
- Vega Aircraft then Lockheed Aircraft - Bakersfield, CA
- Dates of Work
- 6/11/1943 to Aug 1944
- Type of Work
- I made leading edges and trailing edges of B-17 Bombers during the war. Louise Lewis became a Rosie in 1943 after graduating from Kern County Union High School and she was recruited right off the campus.
Louise The Riveter graduated on a Thursday night and was working on wings for a B-17 bomber Monday morning.
One of 10 kids, her two older brothers enlisted.
Harold was in the air force flying on the very plane that she helped to build.
She spent nearly a year on the job but the membership in this unique sorority has lasted a lifetime.
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