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Sister Frances Butler (1924-2013) of Savannah, Georgia, served in the United States Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service) during World War II, and later joined the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. Sister Frances Butler was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1924. She was the fourth of her sisters to attended Woman's College (WC) in Greensboro, North Carolina, which she did for two years before becoming the third of her sisters to join in the United States Navy WAVES [Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service] in the summer of 1944. Butler was sworn into the service in Nashville, Tennessee, and sent to Hunter College in New York for boot camp. She worked in communications while stationed in Charleston, South Carolina, and then the following summer was sent [...] Read more
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