GETS ORDERS FROM WAACS
Opal Dolcater, daughter of Mrs. Mayme Dolcater, 1424 Locust st, is the second member of her family to enter the uniformed services. Enlisted in the WAAC, she has been ordered to report Wednesday as an auxiliary.
Formerly employed by the F.W. Fitch Co., she also managed a beauty salon at Fort Des Moines.
Her brother, Max, a member of the 113th Cavalry, Iowa national guard, left with his organization Jan 23, 1941, and is now on duty somewhere in the south Pacific. A former Register and Tribune promotion department employee, he was the second person to leave for military service from that company.
Their father is H.F. Dolcater of Oskaloosa, Ia.
Source: The Des Moines Register, January 17, 1943
WAACs Had Variety of Jobs
A dancer and a dude rancher, a beauty operator and a tool expediter - such are the civilian calling of four auxiliaries recently enrolled in the women's army auxiliary corps.
Auxiliary Opal Belle Dolcater of Des Moines became sold on military life when she worked as an assistant manager of a beauty shop at the fort. For six months she shampooed and set the hair of women soldiers and the more she saw of them the more she wanted to be a WAAC herself. Although she had volunteered months ago, her application was deferred until 1943. Now she pins up her onw hair each night.
Auxiliary Dolcater is the daughter of Mrs. Mayme Bettus, 1424 Locust ave., and H.F. Dolcater, Oskaloosa, Ia. She was born in Gibson, Ia., attended high school in What Cheer and Montezuma, Ia.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, February 18, 1943 (photo included)
One Iowa WAC in Class
Fort Des Moines - One Iowan, Opal Dolcater, Des Moines, will be among the first class of officers to be commissioned as second lieutenants in the women's army corps component of the United States army at the graduation exercises Thursday.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 2, 1943
Des Moines in the Services
Second Lieut. Opal Dolcater, WAC, daughter of Mrs. Mayme Bettis, 1424 Locust st., has been assigned assistant officer at the mess hall of Letterman General hospital, San Francisco, Calif.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, July 5, 1944
