An interview with Ruth Whittington Lockart / Ruth Whittington Lockart ; Sandra Dehner-Wheeler, interviewer. 2007.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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American Aircraft Institute.

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Dehner-Wheeler, Sandra,

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Born on March 12, 1939 to Frederick and Mona Lutes Dehner of Lincoln, Ill. This interview gives Sandy's reminiscences of her early years while her father was in the U.S. Army fighting in the South Pacific. Sandy talks about how her father's mobilization affected her mother, Mona Dehner, and the three young children her mother was caring for in Lincoln. Her father Frederick was deployed to Bougainville, leaving Mona with three children and no steady income except the allotment that Fred sent home...

Howard Aircraft Corporation.

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Lockart, Ruth Whittington.

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Born June 17, 1923 on her parents' farm in Herrick, Illinois. Just out of high school, Ruth decided to move to Chicago to live with her sister, enrolling in the American Aircraft Institute, where she learned a variety of manufacturing skills. She lived with several other girls at the Eleanor Club for Girls in Chicago. Following her graduation, she found work with the Howard Aircraft Corporation, where she worked as a riveter on the G3-H Nightingale, a U.S. Navy trainer. Following this, Ruth work...

Eleanor Club for Girls of Chicago.

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