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liBMnMiw, si VMi HA Almanac 50 Years Later WAVES invasion recalled Hazel Harriett Humphrey, 79, of Knnrth Darling 71, of 5505 N.W, Torgerson Drive died of a heart attack Saturday at Iowa Methodist Valeric noted blues is dead at age 33 Chicago, 111. (AP) Blues singer Valerie Wellington, known for her raucous, shot-and-a-lccr vocal style, has died at age 33 of a brain aneurysm. Wellington, who completed a monthlong tour of Japan in late December, became ill New Year's Eve and died Saturday at Iyola Univer fZJ DWmi'KTIRSOSTlll Rm.isTIN Betty Brimm and her WAVES uniform. "We were a very proud group," she said. summer of 1944 attracted newsreel cameras.

Brimm remembers going to Black's department store in downtown Waterloo to pick out her WAVES uniform. Inspections were conducted on the street in front of Bartlett Hall. "We were paid a day once a That was the name of a song we sang," she said. To be a Wave a woman had to be between 20 and 36, at least 5 feet tall and 95 pounds, and have a good "local reputation," Born said. If single when she signed up she had to promise not to get married until her training was completed.

Opened the Door The WAVES are credited with opening the door for future service-women. President Harry Truman in 1948 fully integrated women from all of the armed forces into their respective branches, but it wasn't until 1972 that the name Waves was abandoned by the Navy. Brimm went on to become a commissioned officer and she served ZlA years as a training officer at Naval bases in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Fort Lauderdale, Fla. After the war she received her graduate degree in speech therapy at Columbia University. When the Columbia placement bureau posted notice of a speech therapist job opening in 1948 at the Iowa State Teachers College laboratory school here, Brimm grabbed it.

"I can't tell you why but, for some reason, since I studied geography in fifth grade there were two places in the world where I wanted to go: Switzerland and Iowa," she said. Even though the snow "was up to our eyebrows" during her first stay in Iowa in 1943, she said she wasn't disappointed with the state. Also arriving at the Cedar Falls school in the 1948 was its new principal, the late Paul Brimm. He and Betty were married a year later and made Cedar Falls their permanent home. "I can't think of anything in my whole experience in the WAVES that I didn't like.

It was a period of my life that I wouldn't have wanted to miss for anything. In all that time there never was a hint of discrimination or condescension to us by anyone in the Navy because we were women," Brimm said. At $195, Security Systems Obituaries Barbara SwaiiKon, 54, of 1 2') I 40th St. diel of cancer Thursday at Mercy Hospital Medical Center. Services will be ut 1 1 urn Tihw.

i ImU Ul U'ovriiuiir neral Home, with cremation llowing serv- ices. 7 Born in Ring-f 'ui gold County, she OVfcfiA lvrd in Waukee before moving to Des Moines 1 1 years ago, was employed in the customer service department of the Amoco Motor Club and was a member of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Surviving are a daughter, Julie Eckstein of Des Moines; a son, Paul of Kenosha, three sisters, Beverly Koshatka of Iowa City. Mary Stromburg of Blockton and Phoebe Rassmussen of Boston; a brother, Lyman Johnston of Cupertino, Calif and a grandchild. Wends may call from 9 a.m.

Tuesday until service time at the funeral home, where the family will be present. Marjorie E. Sanderson, 71, of 828 16th West Des Moines, died of cancer Saturday at Iowa Method ist Medical Center in Des Moines. The body will be cremated and private graveside memorial services will held at Rest-haven Cemetery in West Des Moines. Mrs.

Sanderson was born in Colfax and had lived in West Des Moines for 43 years. She was a homemaker and a member of the Cottage Grove Avenue Presbyterian Church. Survivors include her husband, Robert; two daughters, Melanie Sanderson of Des Moines and Julie Walker of Vermillion, S.D; two sons, Robert Jr. of Thornton, and Douglas of Renton, two sisters, Leona Conway of Latrobe, and Mary Debuchananne of Silver Spring, a brother, Fred Conway of Yuma, and four grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Central Iowa.

Sarah M. Peterson, 73, of Madrid died of a heart ailment Saturday at her home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Sundberg-Kirkpatrick Funeral Home in Madrid, with burial at Mount Hope Cemetery near there. Mrs.

Peterson was born in Dallas County and had lived in the Madrid area most of her life. She was a homemaker and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. Survivors include three sons, Gary of Madrid, Carl of Yellville, and Ronald of Austin, Texas; a daughter, Carla Seiler, a brother, Bill Latta, and a sister, Mildred Rockwell, all of Madrid; and six grandchildren. Friends may call after 10 a.m. today at the funeral home, where the family will be present from 7 to 9 p.m.

Florence Mildred Nordeen, 73, of Story City died of cancer Saturday at Story City Memorial Hospital. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Story City, of which she was a member. Burial will be at Story City Cemetery. Mrs.

Nordeen, a lifelong Story City resident, had worked for Pronto Foods in Ames for 15 years. Survivors include two sons, Reynold of Ames and John of Story City; a daughter, Marcia Hill of Roland; a sister, Gertrude Larson, and a brother, Irving Weirson, both of Story City; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call after 3 p.m. today at Soderstrum-Larson Funeral Home in Story City, where the family will be present from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Nelle J.

Steffarud, 104, of Minneapolis died of a heart ailment Sunday at Crystal Care Center there, where she was a resident. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Resthaven Cemetery in West Des Moines. Mrs. Steffarud was born in Lenox and had lived in the Des Moines area for 70 years, moving to Minneapolis four years ago.

She was a homemaker and a member of First Federated Church. A niece and a nephew survive. Arrangements are being handled by Werness Bros. Funeral Home in Minneapolis. Police shoot elderly man barricaded in house Logan, W.

Va. (AP) A man who barricaded himself in his house for 14 hours despite attempts to drive him out with tear gas was shot and killed by troopers in an exchange of gunfire early Sunday. Troopers went to the house of Roosevelt Williams, 81, on Saturday after his daughter told them that Williams had been drinking and refused to see anybody for several days, said State Police Sgt. Glen Abies. Fu 1 Kamsey Home, lI I 27lh died of complications of a stroke Saturday at the home, here she had been a resident seven years.

Services will be at 11 a TtH'v day at Merle Hay Funeral Home, with burial at 2 p.m. at Corydon emetery, Mrs. Humphrey was born in Cor ydon and had lived in Knoxville belore moving to Des Moines in 1 She retired from the State of Iowa Department of Welfare and was a member or the Knoxville Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include two sons, David of Des Moines and Robert of Nor- walk; a daughter, Sharon Ethell of Knoxville; four grandchildren; and inree great-grandchildren. The family will greet friends from 0 to p.m.

today at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may oe maae to Kamsey Home. Thomas C. Iseminger, 78, of Bon- durant died of a heart ailment Satur day at Mercy Hospital Medical Center in Des Moines. Services will be at 1 p.m.

Tuesday at the Bondurant Federated Church, of which he was a member. Burial will be at Bondurant Cemetery. Mr. Isemineer. a lifelong Bondurant resident, was a retired parts manager for Mitchell Equipment and an Army veteran of World War II.

He also had served on the Bondurant City Council and vol unteer fire department. Surviving are a daughter, Mary Is- emmger, and three sisters, Elsie Day, Ruth Smith and Dorothy Cosper, all of Bondurant. The family will greet friends from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Altoona Funeral Home. Memorial contributions may be made to his church or the Bondurant Rescue Department.

Dorothy E. Swan, 72, of Creston died of a stroke Friday in Liberty, Mo. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Creston United Church of Christ, of which she was a member. Burial will be at Graceland Cemetery there.

Mrs. Swan was born in Union County and had lived in the Creston area most of her life. She was a homemaker and had also taught school in the Highland and Afton areas, and was a member of the Mayflower Fellowship, the Vesta Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and the Elzevir Reading Circle. Survivors include her husband, Gerald; two daughters, Janet Ahnen of Crane, and Carol Kinkade of Creston; a son, Gerry of Dallas Center; and seven grandchildren. Friends may call after 9 a.m today at the Keating-Lindsay Funer al Home in Creston, where the family will be present from 7 to 8 p.m.

Me morial contributions may be made to her church. Paige Kayeann L'Estrange Johnson, 3-month-old daughter of Mark L'Estrange and Jennifer Johnson of 4210 N.E. 14th died of sudden infant death syndrome Sunday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center. Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at St.

Anthony's Catholic Church, with burial at St. Patrick Cemetery in Cumming. In addition to her parents, also surviving are her grandparents, John and Judy Johnson and Jim and Jane L'Estrange, all of Des Moines. The family will greet friends from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at Tonini Funeral Home, where a vigil service will be held at 7 p.m.

Baby sitter shoots self accidentally Baldwin Park, Calif. (AP) A baby sitter who armed herself with a shotgun after an argument with her brother accidentally killed herself with it Sunday while the children she was watching slept, police said. Trisha Umberto, 14, of Glendora, was tapping the butt of the shotgun on the floor when it fired, hitting her in the chest, Lt. Michael Bennett. The children slept through the shooting.

Umberto was baby-sitting her sister's two young children when Um-berto's brother arrived, Bennett said. She and her brother got into an argument. The brother left the house, and Umberto found a shotgun and loaded it, Bennett said. Head of Mormon Church responds to treatment Salt Lake City, Utah (AP) Ezra Taft Benson, 93, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, was responding to treatment for pneumonia Sunday, a church spokesman said. He remained hospitalized in serious condition.

Medical ('enter. service- will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Merle Hay Funer al Home, with burial at Chapel Hill Cemetery. 4 Mr. Darling was born in Spring Grove and had lived in Des Moines most of his life.

He was a retired machinist with the Delavan Manufacturing an Army veteran of World War II and a member of the Ueaverdale Veterans of Foreign Wars post. He is survived by his wife, Beulah; two sons, Raymnn of Menasha, and Paul of Colton, S.D.; three sisters, Muriel Rosson of Ottumwa, Fern Kluss of Mason City and Dorothy Post of Stover, a foster brother, Ed Clary of Bloomfield; and two grandchildren. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Glen Echo Christian Church.

Vema L. Massey, 83, of 1314 Park Ave. died of cancer Saturday at Iowa Lutheran Hospital. Services will be at 1 1 a.m, 1 Wednesday at Dahlstrom Funeral Home, with burial atGlendale Cemetery. Mrs.

Massey was born in Stuart and had lived in Des Moines for 40 years. She was a homemaker. Survivors include two sons, Marvin Lund and Carl Lund, both of Des Moines; four sisters, Laura Wheeler and Sarah Barnes, both of Des Moines, Opal Ogle of Stuart and Gladys Paullin of Clinton, six grandchildren; and three greatgrandchildren. The family will greet friends from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. Chester H. Thrailkill, 85, of Adel died of a heart ailment Friday at his winter home in Apache Junction, Ariz. Services will be at 1 :30 p.m. Wednesday at the Dexter United Methodist Church, of which he was a member.

Burial will be at Dexter Cemetery. Mr. Thrailkill was born in Earlham and had lived in the Dexter and Adel areas most of his life. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Masonic Lodge. Survivors include his wife, Arlene; a son, Chester Jr.

of Pleasanton, three daughters, Shirley Cros-man of Adel, Barbara Ilalpin of Bet-tendorf and Treva Davis of Spring-ville; two brothers, Maurice of Winterset and Ray of Orlando, a sister, Tillie Heifner of Tulsa, Okla; eight grandchildren; and eight greatgrandchildren. Friends may call after noon Tuesday at Link Funeral Home in Stuart, where the family will be present from 7 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to his church. Mabel Don Carlos, 91, of Greenfield died of a stroke there Friday. Services will be at 10:30 a.m.

today at the Greenfield United Methodist Church, of which she was a member. Burial will be at Greenfield Cemetery. Born in Shelby County, she had lived in Greenfield most of her life. A homemaker, she was a member of the Greenfield American Legion Auxiliary and the Federated Clubs. Survivors include two daughters, Helen Miller and Darlene Marshall, both of Greenfield; seven grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to her church. Arrangements are being handled by Steen Funeral Home in Greenfield. Des Moines Births IOWA LUTHERAN HOSPITAL WYATT Teresa and John of Des Moines, a daughter, Wednesday. FOSTER Heidi and Rodney of Clive, a son. Friday HARPER Mary and Michael of Winterset, a son.

Friday. MYERS Brenda and Alan of Dallas Center, a son. Friday. PHAL How Phal and Fa Che of Des Moines, a daughter, Saturday. SEUFERER Deb and Bret of Chariton, a daughter.

Saturday. SCHULTE Deborah of Ankeny. a daughter, Sunday. IOWA METHODIST MEDICAL CENTER SMITH Susan and Timothy of Ankeny. a son, Saturday.

LATHROP Becky and Dana of Ankeny, a son. Sunday. VOGEL Judith and Lance of Des Moines, a son, Sunday. MERCY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER JOHNSON Becky and Walter of Pleasant Hill, a son, Saturday. BARNES Carmella of Des Moines, a daughter.

Sunday. BOSLEY Kaye and Mark of Des Moines, a son. Sunday. TRADER Carmen and Brian of Des Moines, a daughter. Sunday Des MoisEsDIi.

ASHBURN James 80. of Lamoni died Sunday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center HUMPHREY Hazel 79 of Ramsey Home. 16! 1 27th died there Saturday ESTRANGE JOHNSON Paige 3-month-oid daughter of Mark L'Estrange and Jennifer Johnson of 420 Mth died Sunday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center SCHADE Raymond 89 of Audubon died Saturday at Mercy Hospital Medical Center sity Medical Center in suburban May wood, family members said. She was a Chicago native and a graduate of the city's American Conservatory of Music. "She was trained in opera, but she chose to sing the blues," said Dr.

Ienin "Doc" Pellegrino, a longtime friend. "With her voice and pres ence, she could have done either." Wellington also used her knowl edge of classic blues to pursue an acting career, specializing in playing singers of the past. She portrayed Ma Rainey in the 1984 stage production "The Heart of the Blues" and later played the title role in "The Little Dreamer: A Night in the Life of Bessie Smith." In 1989, she played 1950s blues singer Big Maybell in "Great Balls of Fire," a movie based on the life of singer Jerry Lee Lewis. ADVERTISEMENT Death Notices BARNARD Services for Marv Elizabeth Barnard, of Loom is will be 10 00 AM Monday ot St. Anthony's Catholic Church.

Interment Glen-dale Cemetery. Vigil service 7 PM Sunaov at Dunn's Funeral Home 1121 Grand Ave. 244 2111 BELL Graveside services for Irene Bell, of The Madrid Home, will be 10 00 AM Monday of Riverside Cemetery, Sterling, llllinois. Westover Funeral Home BENWELL Memorial services for Cori L. Ben-well, of 1007 N.W.

Apple-wood, Ankeny, will be 7:30 PM Monday at Our Lady 's Immaculate Heart Catholic Church in Ankeny. Westover Funeral Home M2LH IckmonRd. 274-457 ERICKSON For Information regarding services for Loretta Erickson, of Santa Clara, formerly of Des Moines, call Westover Funeral Home 6337 Hickman Rd. 274-4547 MANNING Memorial services for John R. Manning of West Los Angeles, CA, formerly of Des Moines will be 10 AM Monday ot Assumption Church, Granger, IA.

Hamilton's Near Highland Memory Gardens 121 N.W. 40th Ave. 2W-2442 SLECHTA Memorial services for Lowell A. Siechta, of 1908 50th will be 1:00 PM Wednesday at the funeral home. Wesfo geJo1 ffiiys SWANSON Services for Barbara L.

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Call for Eye Exams rjowrrowH 244-6601 MERLE HAY MAI 276-8237 VALLEY WEST MALL 223-2545 The Navy trained more than 14.000 women at the Iowa State Teachers College. fyJACKHOVELSON Of Tut Hi i iM i km Hi i Cedar Falls, la. They came here in waves a half-century ago: Hundreds of patriotic American women intent on fulfilling a role in defense of their country. They were the WAVES Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service By the time World War II ended, more than 14,000 of them hud lieen sent by the Navy to Cedar Falls for "boot camp" or advanced training. For 29 months, the women in snappy Navy blue uniforms and white crested caps occupied Bart-lett Hall women's dormitory at Iowa State Teachers College, known today as the University of Northern Iowa.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the WAVES at "TC," Army Capt. Kevin M. Born, assistant professor of military sci ence in the ROTC program at UNI, has researched the era and set up a display of WAVES uniforms and memorabilia in the school's library. The Basics "It's where they taught us the things that all new people in the Navy had to learn how to salute, march, recognize all the warplanes, climb rope ladders," Betty Brimm recalled. The first contingent of WAVES enlistees came in December 1942.

Brimm, a Pennsylvania schoolteacher and member of the second class, arrived in February 1943 after a long train ride. 'Each of us was trained to re place a man for sea duty. We were a very proud group," said Brimm, who jumped at the chance to return to Cedar Falls a few years later. i he Navy was so anxious to get us trained that they jammed eight weeks of training into four weeks for us in the second class. They dis covered that wasn't enough time so they extended it to six weeks for those who came after us," Brimm said.

Bartlett Hall, with a capacity of 500 coeds, became home for 1 ,000 Waves at a time from 1942 to 1945. Doubling the number of double-bunks in each room did it. Parachute Riggers Navy staff officers at the school called their students "Ripples," women learning to become Waves. After graduation they became parachute riggers, aviation mechanics, hospital technicians, messengers, chauffeurs, photographers, clerks, meteorologist's assistants and other specialized workers for the Navy, according to Bom's research. Training of yeomen to be secretaries, clerks and office workers was introduced at the WAVES camp in April 1943.

In January that year the country's first group of Spars, the Coast Guard's women's auxiliary, was formed at the teacher's college. About 150 Spars were trained here before mid-1943 when the Coast Guard opened its own school in Florida. "Unlike the SPARs and WACs (Women's Army Corps), the WAVES were never an auxiliary unit. From the beginning we were an integral part of the Navy and were in its chain of command," Brimm said. There was little free time, but Brimm recalls going to Waterloo to see a movie at the Strand Theater where she saluted the doorman "because he had on a uniform that had a lot of decoration." The Cedar Falls Woman's Clubhouse became a USO center for the duration.

In the Fields A group of Waves who helped detassel corn near Reinbeck in the Chinese cargo ship intercepted by Navy Manama, Bahrain (AP) The multinational flotilla that enforces sanctions against Iraq has boarded its ship, a Chinese merchant vessel, the U.S. Navy said Sunday. The United Nations imposed the oil and trade sanctions shortly after Iraq seized Kuwait in August 1990. The Chinese cargo ship Chunsine was intercepted Tuesday in the Red Sea as it sailed for Aqaba, Jordan, from Vietnam, said Petty Officer Kevin Stephens, spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

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