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Title	[Portrait of Joan R. Kammer and Carl Horton, circa 1957]
Date	1957
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	United States--History--1945- United States. Marine Corps--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Marines--Women Marines
Item description	Portrait of Joan R. Kammer Horton and Carl Horton, who married in August 1957, both wearing Marine Corps dress blues.
Veteran's name	Horton, Joan R. Kammer
Veteran's biography	Joan Kammer Horton (1931-2006) of Cincinnati, Ohio, served in the U.S. Marine Corps in San Francisco, California, from 1953 until 1957 . Joan R. Kammer Horton grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio, and graduated from Seton High School in 1945. She worked after school for trucking companies and at Kroger’s grocery store. After graduating, she continued to work in the trucking industry and in a bank, and became involved in a competitive rifle club . In late 1953, Horton joined the Women Marines. After eight weeks of basic training at Parris Island, South Carolina, she was assigned to the Department of the Pacific in San Francisco, California. While there, she ran the rifle range with her future husband, Carl Horton, and worked in an office. Horton was promoted to sergeant on 1 April 1956, and switched to the Reserves in 1957. She and Carl Horton were married in August 1957, and she left the Marine Corps when she became pregnant . The Hortons lived in Washington State until her husband retired from the Marine Corps in 1969. They moved to Pigeon Key, Florida, where they operated a marine field station for the University of Miami with their three children. They later moved to Davie County, North Carolina, where they briefly ran a shrubbery nursery and then worked in trucking and motel supply. Horton has also volunteered at Veterans Administration hospitals.
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	WV0155 Joan R. Kammer Horton 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	WV0155.6.013
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	900811576

[Portrait of Joan R. Kammer and Carl Horton, circa 1957]

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