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Title	[Portrait of Ava Caudle Honeycutt, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Hand-colored portrait of Ava Caudle Honeycutt, circa 1944. She wears the U.S. Navy WAVES service dress blue uniform with the rank of 3rd class petty officer on her shoulder.
Veteran's name	Honeycutt, Ava Caudle
Veteran's biography	Ava Honeycutt of Anson County, North Carolina, served in the WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during WWII . Ava Honeycutt was born in Anson County, North Carolina, and graduated from high school there. She then attended cosmetology school and worked in Albermarle, North Carolina. In 1943 she enlisted in the WAVES in Raleigh and attended basic training at Hunter College in New York. Her first assignment was in Washington, D.C., where she made and provided quality control for code reading equipment. When the war ended, the annex she worked at was closed and she was transferred to an air station until she completed her time . After leaving the service, she attended Pfeiffer University using the GI Bill. She transferred to Pepperdine University after two years. She graduated from the university in 1948 with a degree in home economics. After graduating she married a fellow Pfeiffer graduate. They moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where she taught at a junior high. When her husband was transferred to New Jersey, she taught there. They later returned to North Carolina, settling in Greensboro, and she worked for thirteen years in academic advising at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She retired in the late seventies.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0438 Ava Caudle Honeycutt 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. Photo by White.
Object ID	WV0438.6.001
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	900815071

[Portrait of Ava Caudle Honeycutt, circa 1944]

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