Remember the Fallen: October
This month please remember these women who died during October while serving our country in or during war times:
1 Oct 1918: ANC Ethel Leach, died at Edgewood Arsenal, MD
1 Oct 1943: CIVILIAN Nurse Martha Thurmond, possibly N Africa
1 Oct 1943: CIVILIAN Nurse Virginia Link, N Africa
1 Oct 2003: USA PFC Analaura Esparza Gutierrez, 21, IRAQ
1 Oct 2003: USA SPC Tamarra Joharidelonda Ramos, 24, IRAQ
1 Oct 2006: NYARNG SGT Denise A Lannaman, 46, non-combat gunshot, KUWAIT
1 Oct 2007: USN MASA Apprentice Shayna Ann Schnell, 19, non-combat vehicle accident, Dubai
1 Oct 2012: USA SGT Donna R Johnson, 29, suicide bomber, AFGHANISTAN
1 Oct 2015: USMM Danielle Randolph, 34, lost at sea on El Faro
1 Oct 2015: CIVILIAN Mariette Wright, 51, lost at sea on El Faro
2 Oct 1918: ANC Flora Ruth, died at Camp Pike, AR
2 Oct 1944: WASP Marie Michell Robinson, WW II
2 Oct 1969: CIVILIAN Hannah E. Crews, American Red Cross, VIETNAM
2 Oct 1969: CIVILIAN Dr. Breen Ratterman, USAID, VIETNAM
2 Oct 2015: USAF A1C Kcey E Ruiz, 21, plane crash, AFGHANISTAN
3 Oct 1944: WASP Peggy Wilson Martin, WW II
3 Oct 2004: USA SSG Gina R Sparks, 35, non-combat incident, died at Fort Polk, LA
3 Oct 2012: USA SGT Camella M Steedley, 31, died in AFGHANISTAN
4 Oct 1918: ANC Rose Rapp, died during WWI
5 Oct 1943: WASP Virginia C. Moffatt, WW II
5 Oct 2007: USAR SPC Rachael L Hugo, 24, IRAQ
6 Oct 2004: ILARNG SPC Jessica Lynn Cawvey, 21, IRAQ
6 Oct 2011: USA SGT Catalina M Ruiz, 27, murdered at Fort Bragg
6 Oct 2013: USA 1LT Jennifer Moreno, 25, IED, AFGHANISTAN
7 Oct 2010: USA SGT Amanda A Sheldon, 24, suicide, Cape Fear, NC
8 Oct 1918: ANC Florence Leclare, pneumonia, Camp Devens, MA
8 Oct 1918: ANC Grace Buell, WWI
10 Oct 2007: USAR SSG Lillian (Cobbin) Clamens, 35, IRAQ
11 Oct 2004: USA SGT Pamela G. Osbourne, 38, IRAQ
11 Oct 2008: USMC SGT Denise M Quintero SanFillipo, 25, died 2 weeks after giving birth to daughter in Camp Pendleton
11 Oct 2015: USAF MAJ Phyllis J Pelky, 45, helicopter crash, AFGHANISTAN
12 Oct 2000: USN CSSN Lakeina Monique Francis, 19, USS Cole, ADEN, YEMEN
12 Oct 2000: USN SN Lakiba Nicole Palmer, 22, USS Cole, ADEN, YEMEN
12 Oct 2014: USA SGM Jody A George, 48, died from Agent Orange complications, Temple, TX
13 Oct 2012: USA SPC Brittany B Gordon, 24, IED, AFGHANISTAN
14 Oct 2006: USA SPC Latosha B. Vines, 22, struck by train, Germany
14 Oct 2006: USA PFC Lena Karungi, 21, struck by train, Germany
15 Oct 1898: Army Contract Nurse Carolina Wolfe (Nun—Sister Caroline), Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
15 Oct 2005: USAF SSG Elizabeth M Johnson, 22, buried in FL
16 Oct 1944: WASP Marjorie “Margie” Laverne Davis, WW II
16 Oct 1944: WASP Jeanne Lewellen Norbeck, WW II
17 Oct 1898: Army Contract Nurse Margaret Greenfield, Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
18 Oct 2006: USN Jeanne “Linda” Michel, 33, suicide in her home, Clifton Park, NY
19 Oct 2008: USMC L/CPL Stacy Dryden, 22, IRAQ
19 Oct 2009: USAF A1C Lauren Lagudi, 20, struck by train in Italy
20 Oct 1970: CIVILIAN Gloria Redlin, Catholic Relief Services, VIETNAM
21 Oct 1918: ANC Flossie E Brownlee, died in NYC
21 Oct 1944: USA ANC LT Frances Slanger, WW II
22 Oct 1915: ANC Margaret Hamilton, WWI
22 Oct 1944: USA ANC 2LT Sara Vance, Italy, WW II
22 Oct 2007: USN MASN Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho, 20, murdered by US sailor, Bahrain
22 Oct 2007: USN MASN Genesia Mattril Gresham, 19, murdered by US sailor, Bahrain
22 Oct 2010: USA SSG Aracely Gonzalez O’Malley, 31, non-combat incident, AFGHANISTAN
22 Oct 2011: NCARNG 1LT Ashley I (White) Stumpf, 24, IED, AFGHANISTAN
23 Oct 1898: Army Contract Nurse Mary Sweeney (Nun—Sister Mary Agnes), Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
23 Oct 2004: CIVILIAN Jamie Michalsky, 23, interpreter, AFGHANISTAN
25 Oct 1994: USN LT Kara Hultgreen, 26, plane crash aboard USS Abraham Lincoln
25 Oct 2003: USN FN Jakia Sheree Cannon, 20, IRAQ
25 Oct 2008: USA PFC Cori Feltner, 22, died in St Louis hotel enroute to her first assignment in Korea
25 Oct 2009: USA Eduviges G Wolf, 24, AFGHANISTAN
26 Oct 1918: ANC Hannah L Burden, pneumonia, Camp Sherman, OH
26 Oct 1944: WASP Gertrude V. Tompkins-Silver, WW II
26 Oct 1968: CIVILIAN Rosalyn Muskat, Army Special Services, VIETNAM
26 Oct 2003: USA PFC Rachel K. Bosveld, 19, IRAQ
28 Oct 1898: Army Contract Nurse Clara Ward, Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
28 Oct 2005: MOARNG 1LT Debra (Butler) Banaszak, 35, non-combat incident, KUWAIT
29 Oct 2009: USCG AET2 Monica L Beacham, 29, plane/chopper crash in Pacific
31 Oct 1918: ANC Grace Copland, WWI
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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