Woodbury County

Lt. Dorothy Helen Weaver

 

 

WAACs Call Her

Manchester, Ia. -- Miss Dorothy Weaver, who has taught junior high English n the Manchester public schools for four years, has resigned. Miss Weaver, who enlisted several weeks ago in the WAACs, has received her call, and after a brief visit with her parents, Mr and Mrs John Weaver, at Moville, will start her training, Feb.23, presumably at Des Moines. She will be succeeded here by Mrs. Donald F. Howard, wife of the high school principal.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - February 18, 1943 (photo included)

Enters Waacs

Moville, Ia. -- Special: Miss Dorothy Weaver is the first woman from Moville to enlist in the Waacs. She is a graduate of Moville high school and of Morningside college. She has been teaching since finishing college. She is the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. John Weaver.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 24, 1943

Our Neighbors in the Service

Moville, Iowa-- Auxiliary Dorothy Weaver, member of the Waacs, DesMoines, visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Weaver.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, May 7, 1943

WAAC COMMISSIONED

Manchester, Ia. -- Miss Dorothy Weaver who resigned as instructor at the junior high school here several months ago to join the WAAC, was commissioned as third officer Monday at Des Moines at graduating exercise for the twenty-seventh officer candidate class. Miss Weaver's home is at Moville.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - May 12, 1943

First Lt. Dorothy Helen Weaver of Moville, Wac company commander at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., is a member of the fourth class of student officers assigned to the woman's army corps for personnel administration at Purdue university. She will return to her command at the conclusion of the two-and-one-half week course. She is a former student at Morningside college.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, July 3, 1945