Washington County

Ruth Louise Fishburn

 

 

 

IN MARINES

Ruth Louise Fishburn, 620 Perry street, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fishburn, Washington, Ia., will report next Tuesday to Hunter college, New York City, to begin basic training with the marine corps women's reserve. She has been employed at the procurement office of the arsenal for the past two and a half years and enlisted in the reserves March 17 in Des Moines. She has a brother, Evan, an aviation machinist mate in the navy in Alameda, Calif.

Source: The Quad City Times, May 13, 1943 (photo included)