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Title
[Frances
M
.
Hobbins
and
Dorion
Tam
,
1997]
Date
1997
Subject headings
United States--History--1945-
United States. Navy--Women
Era
Gulf War (1990-2000)
Service branch
Navy--WAVES
Item description
Frances
M
.
Hobbins
poses
with
Dorion
Tam
, the
man
she "
Freed
to
Fight
" in
Honolulu
for the
National
WAVES
Convention
in
1997
.
Veteran's name
Hobbins, Frances Agnes Madden
Veteran's biography
Frances
A.
Madden
Hobbins
(1923-2006)
of
Boston
,
Massachusetts
,
served
in the
U.S
.
Navy
WAVES
(Women
Accepted
for
Volunteer
Emergency
Service)
from
1944
to
1945
and
spent
almost
two
decades
as a
civil
servant
at the
Bureau
of
Naval
Personnel
.
Frances
Madden
Hobbins
was
born
in
Boston
,
Massachusetts
, in
1923
. She
graduated
from
Dorchester
High
School
for
Girls
in
Boston
in
1940
and also
attended
Boston
Clerical
School
for
three
years
. She
went
on to
work
as a
telephone
operator
for
New
England
Telephone
and
Telegraph
.
Hobbins
enlisted
in the
WAVES
on
5
January
1944
. She
attended
Hunter
College
,
New
York
City
, for
basic
training
. She was
stationed
at
Fort
MacArthur
,
Utah
, and
worked
at
Clearfield
Naval
Supply
Station
as a
courier
. In
1945
Hobbins
was
transferred
to
Pearl
Harbor
,
where
she
worked
in
re-supply
. She was
discharged
in
December
of
1945
.
After
World
War
II
,
Hobbins
lived
between
Arizona
and
Boston
. In
1950
she
married
and
settled
in
Arizona
.
After
her
husband's
death
, she
returned
to
Boston
,
where
she
worked
in
computers
at
IBM
.
Hobbins
later
went
into
civil
service
and
worked
at the
Bureau
of
Naval
Personnel
in the
Navy
Annex
in
Washington
,
D.C
. She also
worked
in the
Navy
Yard
before
her
retirement
.
Frances
Hobbins
died
10
April
2006
.
Place
Honolulu
(Hawaii)
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
WV0054 Frances M. Hobbins Papers
Rights statement
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Additional rights information
IN
COPYRIGHT
. This
item
is
subject
to
copyright
.
Contact
the
rights
holder
noted
above
for
permission
to
reuse
.
Object ID
WV0054.6.002
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
900810663
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