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Title	[Louise Ross and John Yegge on their wedding day, 1945]
Date	1945-02
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Photo of Louise Ross Yegge and John Yegge, both in Navy uniforms, outside a building on their wedding day in February 1945.
Veteran's name	Yegge, Louise Ross
Veteran's biography	Louise Ross Yegge (1918-2002) of Harrisburg, Arkansas, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Service) from 1942 to 1945 . Louise Ross Yegge was born on 12 March 1918 in Harrisburg, Arkansas. She graduated from Harrisburg High School in 1934, and went to work in the Sears, Roebuck and Company mail-order plant in Memphis, Tennessee. She lived in the city with an aunt for six years and then rented an apartment with a friend . Yegge enlisted in the U.S. Navy WAVES in December 1942 and reported for basic training at Hunter College, New York. She then completed four months of storekeeper’s school at the University of Indiana in Bloomington. She was then assigned to Naval Air Station, Ottumwa, Iowa, where she worked in the storeroom until her discharge in September 1945 . Yegge met her husband, John Francis Yegge, while both were stationed at Ottumwa, and they were married February 6, 1945. After they were both discharged, the Yegges moved to Boone, Iowa. In 1953, the couple moved to Memphis, and they later settled in Greensboro, North Carolina. During this time, Yegge raised two sons, Vince and Mike. Louise Yegge passed away on June 9, 2002.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0242 Louise Ross Yegge Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0242.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900812770

[Louise Ross and John Yegge on their wedding day, 1945]

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