Tuesday, June 16, 2020

100th anniversary of my mom's birthday

My mom, Olga R. Munsterman, was born on this day in 1920. She passed away on 3 January 3, 1991, and is buried at the Ft. Leavenworth National Cemetery. She served as a SPAR in the United States Coast Guard, a Yeoman Second Class.

She left the family farm (near Stover, MO, about 95 miles southeast of Kansas City, Missouri) when she was 18 and moved to KC for work.

Her boot camp was in Palm Beach, Florida, where the Coast Guard had taken over the famous Biltmore Hotel. Here's a history of that period. Her assignment was at Norfolk Virginia. After the war, she went to college at Woodbury College in Los Angeles. Following that, she moved back to Kansas City.



Olga Regina Munsterman 
16 June 1920 - 3 January 1991


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