McLeester, Carol G. B., 1921-2007

McLeester (1921-2007), née Behling, served in the Army from 1944 to 1946.

Prior to her military service, she graduated from River Falls Teachers College in 1941, taught rural schools in St. Croix County (Wisconsin) for two years, and worked at Wright Air Force Base as a civilian. After her discharge at the rank of TEC 4, McLeester earned a degree in home economics from the University of Minnesota, spent eighteen years at home raising four children in Minnesota, and worked for twenty years as a research specialist at the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research. She served as treasurer and lineage research chairman for the Governor Nelson Dewey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution and as vice president of the Madison Chapter of the United Women's Veterans.

From the description of Oral history interview with Carol G. Behling McLeester, [sound recording], 1996. (Wisconsin Veterans Museum Research Center). WorldCat record id: 697844595