Title	[Portrait of Helen and Ras Hester, 1945]
Date	1945
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Marines--USMC Womens Reserve
Item description	Portrait of Helen Boileau Hester and Ras Hester, both in U.S. Marines uniforms, taken in 1945.
Veteran's name	Hester, Helen Boileau
Veteran's biography	Helen Boileau Hester (1923-2009), of Spokane, Washington, served in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserves from June 1943 until December 1945 . Helen Boileau Hester (1923-2009)was born in Spokane, Washington, and graduated from Marycliff High School in 1941. She held a variety of jobs before joining the Women Marines in June 1943. Her basic training was at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and then she was assigned to the post exchange at the Marine Corps Air Station in Cherry Point, North Carolina. In March 1945, Helen Hester married Ras Hester. He shipped out to the Pacific Theater in April, and she was transferred to El Toro, California, in May. Hester was discharged from the service in December 1945 . Hester continued in the same job as a civilian until her husband returned in the spring of 1946. They moved to Burlington, North Carolina, where she worked for a telephone company. The couple had eight children, one of whom joined the military. Hester died in November 2009.
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	WV0128 Helen Boileau Hester 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	WV0128.6.001
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	900811138

[Portrait of Helen and Ras Hester, 1945]

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