Rosie the Riveter has left us

Question

Another member of the Greatest Generation has passed.  I cried when I read this article about Rosie.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Answer 1

Rosie the Riveter was in Longview? That is only 58 miles from where I am right now! I could have gone to see her, baked her a cake...

I think about the Greatest Generation quite a lot, now...my parents' generation, what they gave for the world in that terrible war, and where our country ended up now...so inspiring for what we all face now in our troubled world...

Answer 2

That is sad.

Unfortunately, I could not read the article in the New York Times (but I found one in the Daily Mail)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5301075/The-real-Rosie-Riveter-Naomi-Parker-Fraley-dies-96.html

R.I.P., Naomi Parker Fraley.

Comments

Marianne, I found a link also from FOX News

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/01/22/woman-called-inspiration-for-rosie-riveter-dies-at-96.html

...has this information; 'Following an arduous search by a Seton Hall University professor, Fraley was identified in 2016 as the “real” inspiration of the widely seen poster of a female factory worker flexing with the caption, “We can do it!” '

The woman in the photo you found DOES resemble the famous poster Rooster found, too!

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And Naomi was beautiful.  She had a figure like Lauren Bacall.

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Thank you, Virginia and T(h)ink, oh yes, indeed, she seems to have something in common with Laureen Bacall.

Answer 3

Think she was 96! An inspiration for all! Always will be too. She was something.