Submitted by Noonie Fortin
This month please remember these women who died during April while serving our country in or during war times:
3 Apr 1944: WAFS Evelyn Sharp, WW II
3 Apr 1998: USAF TSGT Shelly Kelly assigned to the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed. She survived the crash, found several hours later, placed on a helicopter and evacuated to the hospital, but strangely, was dead on arrival of a broken neck, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: USAF TSGT Cheryl Turnage, Steward assigned to the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: CIVILIAN Kathryn Hoffman, Commerce Senior Advisor for Strategic Scheduling and Special Initiatives onboard the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: CIVILIAN Carol Hamilton, Commerce Press Secretary to the Secretary onboard the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: CIVILIAN Gail Dobert, Commerce Deputy Director, Office of Business Liaison onboard the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: CIVILIAN Naomi Warbasse, Commerce Deputy Director, Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center onboard the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 1998: CIVILIAN Kathryn Kellogg, Commerce Confidential Assistant, Office of Business Liaison onboard the T-43 (a modified Boeing 737) carrying Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown that crashed, CROATIA
3 Apr 2009: USN FN Amber L Winbourne, 23, onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt from sudden cardiac while in the English Channel enroute to Portsmouth, England
4 Apr 1975: USAF CPT Mary Therese Klinker, 27, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Barbara Adams, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Clara Bayot, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Nova Bell, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Arleta Bertwell, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Helen Blackburn, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Ann Bottorff, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Celeste Brown, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Vivienne Clark, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Juanita Creel, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Mary Ann Crouch, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Dorothy Curtiss, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Twila Donelson, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Helen Drye, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Theresa Drye (child), VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Mary Lyn Eichen, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Elizabeth Fugino, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Ruthanne Gasper, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Beverly Herbert, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Penelope Hindman, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Vera Hollibaugh, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Dorothy Howard, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Barbara Kauvulia, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Barbara Maier, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Rebecca Martin, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Sara Martini, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Martha Middlebrook, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Katherine Moore, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Marta Moschkin, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Marion Polgrean, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN June Poulton, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Joan Pray, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Sayonna Randall, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Anne Reynolds, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Marjorie Snow, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Laurie Stark (teacher), VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Barbara Stout, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Doris Jean Watkins, VIETNAM
4 Apr 1975: CIVILIAN Sharon Wesley, VIETNAM
4 Apr 2009: USA PFC Cassaundra N Beckel, 19, murdered by husband at Ft Bliss, TX
5 Apr 1991: USN AG1 (AW) Shirley Marie (Mellon) Cross, died in Oman, DESERT STORM
6 Apr 2005: USA SGM Barbaralien Banks, 41, AFGHANISTAN
6 Apr 2005: SCARNG SPC Chrystal Gaye Stout, 23, AFGHANISTAN
6 Apr 2013: CIVILIAN Anne Smedinghoff, 25, vehicle bombing, AFGHANISTAN
7 Apr 2004: USA SPC Tyanna S. (Avery) Felder, 22, IRAQ
7 Apr 2006: USA SPC Chauna Lynn Corethers-Turks, 30, dead in barracks Germany
8 Apr 2006: USMC L/CPL Juana Navarro Arellano, 24, non-combat gunshot, IRAQ
8 Apr 2007: USA PFC MarciAnna (Rivera) Bennington, 18, murdered by husband, Killeen, TX
8 Apr 2013: USAR PVT Michelle L Miller, 17, murdered in MD
9 Apr 2004: WIARNG SPC Michelle M. Witmer, 20, IRAQ
10 Apr 1944: USA WAC PVT Byrl Babock, murdered by husband, Des Moines, IA
10 Apr 1944: WASP Marie Ethel Sharon, WW II
11 Apr 1943: USA PFC Rita McCarthy, unknown causes, WWII
12 APR 2008: USA SPC Diana (Juarez) Mota, 30, murdered by husband, Killeen, TX
13 Apr 1945: USA ANC LT Christine A Gasvoda, medevac crash, WW II
14 Apr 1994: USAF 1LT Laura Piper, 25, her helicopter was shot down by a U.S. Air Force F-15 jet in what the military later called “a tragic series of errors”, IRAQ
14 Apr 2012: USA PFC Kelli Bordeaux, 23, murdered, Ft Bragg, NC
15 Apr 1988: USN RM3 Angela S Santos, 21, USO Naples, Italy bombing
15 Apr 2005: USA SPC Aleina Ramirez-Gonzalez, 33, IRAQ
16 Apr 1944: WASP Jayne Elizabeth Erickson, WW II
16 Apr 1944: WASP Mary Holmes Howson, WW II
16 Apr 2005: CIVILIAN Marla Ruzicka, 28, humanitarian, IRAQ
18 Apr 2002: USN SN Katrina Grady, assigned to the USS Port Royal, died at Bethesda, MD
18 Apr 2005: USA PFC Sam Williams Huff, 18, IRAQ
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Rebecca Anderson, 37, rescuer, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: USA SFC Lola Renee Bolden, 40, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Karen Gist Carr, 32, Army Recruiting Advertising Assistant, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Peggy Louise Holland, 37, Army Recruiting Computer Specialist, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: USAF A1C Lakesha R. Levy, 21, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: USAF A1C Cartney Jean McRaven, 19, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Claudine Ritter, 48, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: USA MSG Victoria Lee Sohn, 36, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Dolores M. Stratton, 51, Army Recruiting Personnel Clerk, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Kayla Titsworth, 3, who was with her surviving parents in the Army Recruiting Battalion office, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
19 Apr 1995: CIVILIAN Wanda Watkins, 49, Army Recruiting Clerk, Murrah Building Bombing, OKC
20 Apr 2008: USN NC Cherie Morton, 40, died in her quarters in Bahrain
22 April 2009: USA PFC Jaynie May Askew, 43, apparent suicide after failing combat medic training test at Ft Sam Houston, TX
24 Apr 1944: USA ANC 2LT Thelma W Rounds, suicide, London
25 Apr 1944: WASP Edith “Edy” Clayton Keene, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC 2LT Margaret Billings, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC 2LT Frances Chelsey, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC Evelyn Eckert, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC 2LT Ida Greenwood, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC 1LT Florence Grewer, WW II
28 Apr 1945: USA ANC 2LT Dorothy Stanke, WW II
30 Apr 1991: USA PVT Candace Daniel, 20, accident in Kuwait, DESERT STORM
You can learn a little more about these women as well as those who died in The Pentagon on 9/11/01 and in the Oklahoma City bombing by going to my webpages honoring them at:
www.nooniefortin.com/afghanistan.htm
www.nooniefortin.com/otherareas.htm
www.nooniefortin.com/thepentagon.htm
www.nooniefortin.com/desertstorm.htm
www.nooniefortin.com/vietnam.htm
www.nooniefortin.com/earlierwars.htm
If I have left anyone off--kindly let me know. I am still trying to find exact dates for those who died in earlier wars--those women will be listed each January if I can't find any other dates.
Noonie Fortin
1SG, USA (Ret)
Author and Speaker
Researcher and Consultant
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A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, National Guard or Reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The People of the United States of America", for any amount "up to and including my life". ~ Author unknown.
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