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Mary Frances Williams Elder (1919-1999) of Burlington, North Carolina, served in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) and the Women's Army Corps (WAC) from 1942 to 1945, and was a longtime secretarial worker in the local textile industry. Mary Frances Williams Elder (1919-1999) was born on 14 November 1919, in Lexington, North Carolina, but her family moved to Bristol, Tennessee during the Depression. They returned to North Carolina in the mid-1930s, and moved from Shelby to Burlington in 1937. That year Elder graduated from Burlington High School and enrolled at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now the University of North Carolina at Greensboro). She completed the secretarial program the following year, and went to work at May Hosiery Mill. In [...] Read more
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