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Title	[Portrait of Mary Gibson Rowan, circa 1945]
Date	1945
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Coast Guard
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Coast Guard--SPARS
Item description	Portrait of Mary Gibson Rowan, circa 1945, in the SPARs blue service dress uniform and matching garrison cap.
Veteran's name	Gibson, Laura Avis
Veteran's biography	Laura Avis Gibson (b. 1923) of Randolph County, North Carolina, served in the Coast Guard SPARs from 1944 to 1946 and was a career employee of Burlington Industries . Laura Avis Gibson was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, on 10 December 1923, one of nine children. She worked on the family farm while growing up and graduated from Allen Jay High School in High Point at the age of sixteen. Gibson worked on the family farm for a year, then worked at Burlington Industries for three years, until she was old enough to join the military . Gibson and one of her older sisters joined the Coast Guard in Raleigh in December 1943. The following month they reported for basic training together in Palm Beach, Florida. In April 1944, she was sent to Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C., to do clerical work in the Military Morale Division. Gibson also worked briefly in Admiral Russell Waesche’s office in the Department of the Navy during this time. She remained in Washington until her discharge in March 1946 . Gibson returned to North Carolina after the war, attended Jones Business College, and resumed her career at Burlington Industries.
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	WV0327 Laura Avis Gibson 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	WV0327.6.006
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	900813483

[Portrait of Mary Gibson Rowan, circa 1945]

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