Jayne Elizabeth Erickson
WASP Jayne Elizabeth Erickson (1921-1944) died in a collision over the Avenger Field training base in Texas while on an April 16, 1944, solo flight.
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Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck
WASP Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck (1912-1944) lost her life while testing a repaired BT-13 basic trainer in South Carolina on October 16, 1944.
Marjory Foster Munn
Marjory Foster obtained her license before joining the Women Airforce Service Pilots program in 1944. She was a test pilot in Alabama and flew repaired aircraft to Great Falls, Montana.
Mary Louise Webster
Webster earned her Women Airforce Service Pilot wings on October 16, 1944 and died while serving less than two months later.
Mary Barnes Sturdevant
WWII WASP (US military pilot)
Nancy Nordhoff Dunnam
Women Airforce Service Pilot during WWII
Vivian Fagan
Opal Vivian Hicks Fagan joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots; during her 1944 training she took part in tests to demonstrate that women could fly while having their menstrual period.
Katharine J Densford
Katharine Densford was a pragmatic leader of American nursing as it gained political and academic recognition in the 1940s and 50s. She is remembered as a stateswoman whose leadership of Minnesota’s flagship school of nursing at the University of Minnesota provided the model for nursing education throughout the state and nation.
Theresa Ericksen
After graduating from Northwestern Hospital’s School of Nursing in 1894, Theresa Ericksen led a life of service as a healer, teacher, and promoter of public health and nursing education. Her legacy has ties to the Minnesota Nursing Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Christmas Seals, and Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Betty Strohfus
Elizabeth (Betty) Wall Strohfus fell in love with flying airplanes in the 1940s and became a Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) during World War II. She fought for WASP veteran recognition in the 1970s, and from the 1990s until her death, she traveled across the country to tell her story and inspire others.