Virginia "Ginny" Gilbert Mattson (1922-2003) of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, served with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1946.
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January 1999 oral history transcript; 1 photograph; 1946 "The Helm" yearbook/pictorial history book about the WAVES US Naval Reserve Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania; United States "A Naval Reserve: Ship's company; How we live: Activities, Highlights, Environs"; Waventures Newsletter: Publication of WAVES Barracks, Marrisburg. Pennsylviania, 18 June 1946; WWII Victory Medal; American Campaign Medal.
Virginia "Ginny" Gilbert Mattson (1922-2003) of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, served with the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from 1944 to 1946. Virginia "Ginny" Gilbert Mattson of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, was born on 27 January 1922 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Williamsport High School in 1938 and then attended Dickinson Junior College and Susie Wheaton's Business School, also in Williamsport. Mattson then worked in a women's apparel store. Mattson joined the WAVES in June 1944. She attended basic training at Hunter College in the Bronx, New York, and then completed three months of yeoman training at Cedar Falls, Iowa. She served in the personnel office at the Naval Supply Depot in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, until her discharge in August 1946. Ginny Mattson married Arnold M. Mattson on 11 June 1947, and they adopted their daughter, Katharine Mattson, in 1956. They lived in New York and Greensboro, North Carolina. Ginny Mattson died 19 December 2003.
Women's History Military
Navy -- WAVES
World War II era (1940-1946)
World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
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