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Title	[Elizabeth C. Hickcox and sailor, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--WAVES
Item description	Elizabeth C. Hickcox and an unidentified sailor sit in a booth at a restaurant during off-hours, circa 1944. Hickcox wears a dark blue shirt and a WAVES reserve (light) blue tie.
Veteran's name	Hickcox, Elizabeth C. Jordan
Veteran's biography	Elizabeth Hickcox (b. 1923?) of Glassboro, New Jersey, served in the U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) from March 1944 to December 1945 . Elizabeth "Betty" Jordan Hickcox (b. 1923?) was born in Woodstown, New Jersey, and grew up in Glassboro, New Jersey. After graduating from high school in 1941, she worked at a sewing factory, a bottle cap factory, and a department store before taking a job on the docks with Standard Oil of New York." Hickcox joined the WAVES in March 1944. She completed basic training and then cooks and bakers school at Hunter College in New York. After graduating cooks and bakers school on 29 September 1944, she was sent to the Anacostia Naval Station in Washington, D.C. She started as a scullery maid, but later became a cook. She was discharged from the WAVES on 20 December 1945, shortly after her marriage to Ray Hickcox . The Hickcoxs settled in Schenectady, New York, after Ray Hickcox left the army in June 1946. Betty Hickcox taught sewing for several years and worked briefly for a caterer. She left New York in 1990, eventually settling in Charlotte, N.C.
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	WV0067 Elizabeth C. Hickcox 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	WV0067.6.002
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	900810707

[Elizabeth C. Hickcox and sailor, circa 1944]

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