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Morilla Amanda <I>DeLong</I> Wilson

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Morilla Amanda DeLong Wilson

Birth
Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa, USA
Death
30 Oct 1961 (aged 61)
Wilmette, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Cremated, Ashes scattered Add to Map
Memorial ID
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The daughter of Harvey DeLong and Grace Fuller was quite the amazing lady for her day. Morilla was an attorney. She also worked hard and became an airline executive, which, in 1930 - was not a easy task for a woman. She was the general manager and sales manager of the C.T. Stork Company. In her article Hurry Up and Learn To Fly , Morilla (then Morilla Carveth)wrote:

" I am intensely interested in commercial aviation and the satisfaction I have enjoyed in creating enthusiastic air fans among the women has compensated me for all the days and hours of effort I have put into my new project.

Down in New York recently, we wished to demonstrate how easily all women could learn to fly. Three totally different types of women were selected. We took these women up in the air. After eight hours of dual instructions, these women "soloed" or flew their own planes that very same day, this giving ample proof that regardless of previous environment or training, all women can learn to fly and in short time."

She was smart, sharp and independent and though she had her share of tragedy she carried on. She was a women before her day.

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Chicago Tribune
November 1, 1961

Memorial Services for Mrs. Morilla DeLong Wilson, 61 of 106 4th Street, Wilmette, wife of Roger Wilson, general manager of customer relations for the Continental Can Company, will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 1100 Greenleaf Ave., Wilmette. She died Monday night in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston. A native of Council Bluffs, Ia., she was a graduate of Northwestern University and practiced in Chicago and Texarkana, Tex. She was a legal representative of the National Jewelers Board of Trade in Egypt and the near east and was nationally known among jewelers and lapidary hobbyists. She also leaves her mother, Mrs. Kathryn DeLong, a brother and a sister
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Kathryn DeLong was her stepmother not her mother as the obituary states.
The daughter of Harvey DeLong and Grace Fuller was quite the amazing lady for her day. Morilla was an attorney. She also worked hard and became an airline executive, which, in 1930 - was not a easy task for a woman. She was the general manager and sales manager of the C.T. Stork Company. In her article Hurry Up and Learn To Fly , Morilla (then Morilla Carveth)wrote:

" I am intensely interested in commercial aviation and the satisfaction I have enjoyed in creating enthusiastic air fans among the women has compensated me for all the days and hours of effort I have put into my new project.

Down in New York recently, we wished to demonstrate how easily all women could learn to fly. Three totally different types of women were selected. We took these women up in the air. After eight hours of dual instructions, these women "soloed" or flew their own planes that very same day, this giving ample proof that regardless of previous environment or training, all women can learn to fly and in short time."

She was smart, sharp and independent and though she had her share of tragedy she carried on. She was a women before her day.

___________________________________________________________
Chicago Tribune
November 1, 1961

Memorial Services for Mrs. Morilla DeLong Wilson, 61 of 106 4th Street, Wilmette, wife of Roger Wilson, general manager of customer relations for the Continental Can Company, will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow in the chapel at 1100 Greenleaf Ave., Wilmette. She died Monday night in St. Francis Hospital, Evanston. A native of Council Bluffs, Ia., she was a graduate of Northwestern University and practiced in Chicago and Texarkana, Tex. She was a legal representative of the National Jewelers Board of Trade in Egypt and the near east and was nationally known among jewelers and lapidary hobbyists. She also leaves her mother, Mrs. Kathryn DeLong, a brother and a sister
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Kathryn DeLong was her stepmother not her mother as the obituary states.


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