To Join Waves
Abigail Neilson [sic] left Tuesday for Chicago to join a group of WAVES to go to training center at Hunter college, New York. Miss Neilson enlisted in the WAVES a few weeks ago and has been waiting for her call.
Source: Muscatine Journal News-Tribune, September 11, 1943
Abigail Nielson of Lone Tree Is To Join WAVES
Lone Tree -- Miss Abigail Nielson left this week for Chicago where she joined a group of WAVES who were sent to the training center at Hunter college, N.Y. Miss Nielson is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Nielson of this place and enlisted in the WAVES several weeks ago.
Source: The Iowa City Press Citizen, September 14, 1943
WAVE NEILSON PROMOTED
Lone Tree, Ia. -- Abigail Neilson [sic], daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neilson [sic], has been made technician second class in the WAVES, and is being transferred from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Kingsville, Texas.
Source: Quad City Times, Davenport IA - July 12, 1944
WOMEN IN SERVICE
Abigail Neilson [sic], specialist, second class, of Kingsville, Texas, passed a 15-day furlough recently with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Neilson [sic]. A 1941 graduate of Lone Tree high school, she enlisted in the WAVES in August, 1943.
Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, October 20, 1944 (photo included)
Lone Tree - Abigail Nielson, serving with the Waves at Kingsville, Tex., where she is an instructor in navigation and on a Link trainer, is now being given a course of flying lessons, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nielson, have been advised.
Source: Muscatine Journal News-Tribune, November 25, 1944
WOMEN IN SERVICE
Abigail Nielson, specialist technician second class of the WAVES, passed a four-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nielson of Lone Tree. She is stationed at Kingsville, Texas.
Source: The Iowa City Press Citizen, January 17, 1945
