2123 AAFBU, Harlingen, Texas
She was the daughter of Lee William Alloway, Sr and Sylvia Grace Foster* of Douglas County, Washington. Her siblings were Leah R, Lois G, Leroy W 'Lee' Alloway, and Glenarden 'James' and Betty Alloway and her half-siblings were Edward and David Minor. As Lee William Alloway died young, her mother Sylvia Grace married second to Edward Minor. Bonnie had married to Army Air Corps Veteran Carl John Welz of San Jose, California.
She attended UCLA. On 25 April 1943, she entered AAF flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, and graduated 9 October 1943.
She had been stationed at Dodge City Army Air Base, Kansas, and at Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas.
She was killed in a BT Valiant aircraft, BT-13A #41-22090, when it crashed on an administrative flight two miles north of Randado, Texas, and approximately 42 miles from Laredo Army Air Field, Texas.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
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*Sylvia Grace Foster
m1 Lee William Alloway 1911
m2 Edward Minor bef 1930
m3 Fred Aldred bef 1940
m4 Walter Bernard Jakeman bef Nov 1960
2123 AAFBU, Harlingen, Texas
She was the daughter of Lee William Alloway, Sr and Sylvia Grace Foster* of Douglas County, Washington. Her siblings were Leah R, Lois G, Leroy W 'Lee' Alloway, and Glenarden 'James' and Betty Alloway and her half-siblings were Edward and David Minor. As Lee William Alloway died young, her mother Sylvia Grace married second to Edward Minor. Bonnie had married to Army Air Corps Veteran Carl John Welz of San Jose, California.
She attended UCLA. On 25 April 1943, she entered AAF flight training at Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, and graduated 9 October 1943.
She had been stationed at Dodge City Army Air Base, Kansas, and at Harlingen Army Air Field, Texas.
She was killed in a BT Valiant aircraft, BT-13A #41-22090, when it crashed on an administrative flight two miles north of Randado, Texas, and approximately 42 miles from Laredo Army Air Field, Texas.
She was one of only thirty-eight WWII WASPs killed while in the service of their country.
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*Sylvia Grace Foster
m1 Lee William Alloway 1911
m2 Edward Minor bef 1930
m3 Fred Aldred bef 1940
m4 Walter Bernard Jakeman bef Nov 1960
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