Joins Marines
Reinbeck, Ia. -- Miss Donnie Snow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snow of Reinbeck, who enlisted in the marines March 13, will leave Sunday, May 2, for New York City, where she will take six weeks training Miss Snow graduated from Reinbeck High school in 1935. She is also a graduate of the Waterloo School of Beauty Culture and the American Institute of Business, Des Moines. For the past two years she has been employed at Warner Bros. Film exchange in Des Moines.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo, IA - April 29, 1943 (photo included)
She's a Marine
Reinbeck -- Pvt. Lois Snow is spending a 10-day furlough here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snow. Private Snow is stationed at the marine corps air base at Cherry Point, N.C. She formerly managed a beauty shop in Reinbeck prior to her enlistment in the marines.
Source: The Waterloo Courier, September 19, 1943 (photo included)
First Birthday Reached For Women of Marines
The 325 or more Iowa women who preferred service to their country and a forestry green uniform to civilian life will be among the approximate 12,000 members of the United States marine corps women's reserve observing their first birthday.
None of them had a chance to see the halls of Montezuma or the shores of Tripoli, but each one enlisted has freed a marine for service overseas. Members of the corps serve only within continental United States.
Activities of the following Iowa members of the marines are representative of the service of the corps:
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Pvt. (f.c.) Lois E. Snow, Reinbeck, formerly stationed at marine corps air station, Cherry Point, attending officer school, Camp Lejeune.
Source: The DesMoines Register, February 13, 1944 (photo included)
