Jacqueline Wonsetler | |
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![]() Jacqueline Wonsetler, from a 1972 publication of the NOAA | |
Born | 13 June 1918 Chaves County, New Mexico |
Died | 1 December 1974 Marion, Oregon | (aged 56)
Occupation | Meteorologist |
Florence Jacqueline Wonsetler (13 June 1918 – 1 December 1974) was an American meteorologist. She worked for the National Weather Service for 29 years. [1]
Wonsetler was born in Chaves County, New Mexico, the daughter of Joe Bussey Wonsetler and Florence M. Dean Wonsetler. Her father taught at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. [2] She moved to California with her parents as a child, and earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1940, and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon. [2] She later studied meteorology through correspondence courses from the Pennsylvania State University, [3] [4] She earned a pilot's license in 1946. [2]
Wonsetler joined the United States Navy WAVES during World War II, working as an aerographer's mate from 1943 to 1945. [2] After the war, she joined the National Weather Service, and held meteorological posts are several locations, most notably at McNary Field in Salem, Oregon [5] [6] and in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she was working when she retired in 1972, after 29 years of service. [1] She received the Department of Commerce Outstanding Accomplishment Award "for work in the development of service and briefing methods for transcontinental air races." [7]
Wonsetler was an active member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Ninety-nines, [8] and Citizens for a Better Flagstaff, [9] and served on an advisory commission for the Flagstaff municipal airport. [10] She and her mother owned a mine in Maricopa County, Arizona. [11]
Wonsetler died in 1974, aged 56 years, in Marion, Oregon. [12] Her grave is in Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon.
Jacqueline Wonsetler | |
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![]() Jacqueline Wonsetler, from a 1972 publication of the NOAA | |
Born | 13 June 1918 Chaves County, New Mexico |
Died | 1 December 1974 Marion, Oregon | (aged 56)
Occupation | Meteorologist |
Florence Jacqueline Wonsetler (13 June 1918 – 1 December 1974) was an American meteorologist. She worked for the National Weather Service for 29 years. [1]
Wonsetler was born in Chaves County, New Mexico, the daughter of Joe Bussey Wonsetler and Florence M. Dean Wonsetler. Her father taught at the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. [2] She moved to California with her parents as a child, and earned a bachelor's degree in history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1940, and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon. [2] She later studied meteorology through correspondence courses from the Pennsylvania State University, [3] [4] She earned a pilot's license in 1946. [2]
Wonsetler joined the United States Navy WAVES during World War II, working as an aerographer's mate from 1943 to 1945. [2] After the war, she joined the National Weather Service, and held meteorological posts are several locations, most notably at McNary Field in Salem, Oregon [5] [6] and in Flagstaff, Arizona, where she was working when she retired in 1972, after 29 years of service. [1] She received the Department of Commerce Outstanding Accomplishment Award "for work in the development of service and briefing methods for transcontinental air races." [7]
Wonsetler was an active member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Ninety-nines, [8] and Citizens for a Better Flagstaff, [9] and served on an advisory commission for the Flagstaff municipal airport. [10] She and her mother owned a mine in Maricopa County, Arizona. [11]
Wonsetler died in 1974, aged 56 years, in Marion, Oregon. [12] Her grave is in Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon.