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
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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

[Frances M. Hobbins and Dorion Tam, 1997]

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