Des Moines in the Service
Miss Virginia Memler has returned from Los Angeles, Cal, to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Memler, 19057 Fortieth st., while awaiting call to the WAVES.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, July 8, 1944
Des Moines in the Service
Des Moines women have completed training at the naval training school for WAVES, the Bronx, N.Y., and have received the following assignments:
Ellen L. Larsen, hospital apprentice, second class, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G.E. Tomlinson, 3414 S.W. Ninth st, to the U.S. Naval hospital, San Diego, Cal for further instruction.
Virginia Carolyn Memler, seaman, second class, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. I.B. Memler, 1057 Fortieth st., to Washington, D.C. for duty.
Mary Louise Moore, seaman, second class, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Moore, 815 Thirty-third st, to the naval training school for yeoman, Oklahoma A and M college, Stillwater, Okla for further instruction.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, September 18, 1944
Des Moines in the Services
Virginia Memler, communications specialist, third class, in the WAVES is on a 16-day leave, visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L.B. Memler, 1009 Fortieth st. She is stationed at Washington, D.C.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, August 27, 1945
To Marry This Week
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Memler, 1009 Forty-third st, announce the approaching marriage of their daughter, Virginia Carolyn, to Henry Stanley Finck, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.L. Finck of Glen Ullin, N.D.
The wedding will take place Saturday in the chancel of Plymouth Congregational church.
Miss Memler who was a graduate from Roosevelt High school and attended Iowa State college in Ames, served two years in the WAVES.
Source: The Des Moines Register, August 24, 1947 (photo included)
Virginia Carolyn “Gini” Memler Finck was born June 10, 1923 to Leo Bernard and Cornelia Rebecka Crozier Memler. She died July 30, 2015. Specialist First Class Memler served in World War II with the U.S. Navy, decoding messages one word at a time at the Communications Annex in Washington, D.C. She was married to Henry Stanley “Stan” Finck.
Source: ancestry.com
