Born: 26 December 1526, China
Died: 21 November 1613
Country most active: United States
Also known as: Rose Jung
The following is republished with permission from the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.
The first and possibly only Chinese American woman pilot to solo at what is now known as Boston’s Logan Airport, Rose Lok (b. 1912) grew up on Tyler Street next to Denison House. She was only twenty when the U. S. Department of Commerce granted her a pilot’s license in 1932. Although her parents resisted her desire to fly at first, they finally relented. She was the only woman in the group of twelve Chinese American Bostonians who formed the Chinese patriotic Flying Club to assist in the defense of China from Japan’s invading forces. In 1996, she was memorialized with a tree at the International Forest of Friendship established by the Ninety-Nines, a long-time association of women pilots, in Atchison, Kansas, Amelia Earhart’s hometown.