Muscatine County

 
Delpha Baker

 

 

RECEIVES ORDERS -- Miss Delpha Baker, daughter of Mr and Mrs Guy Baker, 1617 Orange street, has been ordered to report to Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Tex., on Dec 6 for training for the Women's Auxiliary Flying Service.

Miss Baker was interviewed several weeks ago at Council Bluffs, and recently received her orders to report.

She is a graduate of Muscatine high school and junior college, and received her flight training as a member of the C.P.T. class at the Muscatine Municipal Airport.

Source: Muscatine Journal News-Tribune, November 15, 1943 (photo included)

Delpha Baker Ringer was born July 31, 1919 to Guy E. and Pina Delpha Stapp Baker. She died Feb. 10, 1972 and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, IA. She was married to Willie Edgar Ringer, Jr.

Source: ancestry.com