- Date Of Birth: March 11, 1921
- Date Of Death: February 23, 2018
- State: Colorado
Bessie Carolyn Davis, age 96, died at St Anthony Hospital, Lakewood, CO on Friday, February 23, 2018. Bessie was born March 11, 1921 in her grandparent’s house in Mt. Zion, IL. Bessie lived with her mother in her grandparent’s home the early years of her life. Bessie attended grade school at Mt. Zion Elementary School. When her mother married, Bessie moved with her parents out to a country farm, and then later to a house in Bethany, IL. She graduated from Bethany Township High School in 1939. Her first job was as a beauty operator, but that was her mother’s idea and not really what Bessie wanted to do. She soon decided that she wanted to join the Woman’s Army Auxiliary Corp. She served in the U.S. Woman’s Army Air Corp/Woman’s Army Corp during World War II as a platoon sergeant, mail clerk and in communication centers. Tours of duty included Algeria, Italy and France. At the end of the war, she returned to the U.S. to the St. Louis, MO area and got a civil servant job with the Army Finance Center.
