Margery was raised on a farm near Millport but relocated to Youngstown Ohio in 1938, graduating from South High School in 1942.
During World War II, as a teenager, she stepped forward and was the first woman to work the Truscon Steel Company main shipyard, doing dangerous and difficult work such as welding bulkheads on Liberty ships. Subsequestly, she was selected as a candidate for the U.S.Weather Bureau training school in Kansas City. Succesfully graduating, the future Mrs hunter joined the U.S. Weather Bureau as a meterorologist and weather forcaster. Mrs Hunter was kown for her life-long love of painting , membership in the DAR and for historical reading and musical studies.
She married Waldo S Hunter II Nov 21, 1945 in Elkton, MD.
Excerpts from Yongstown Vindicator April 11, 2009
During World War II, as a teenager, she stepped forward and was the first woman to work the Truscon Steel Company main shipyard, doing dangerous and difficult work such as welding bulkheads on Liberty ships. Subsequestly, she was selected as a candidate for the U.S.Weather Bureau training school in Kansas City. Succesfully graduating, the future Mrs hunter joined the U.S. Weather Bureau as a meterorologist and weather forcaster. Mrs Hunter was kown for her life-long love of painting , membership in the DAR and for historical reading and musical studies.
She married Waldo S Hunter II Nov 21, 1945 in Elkton, MD.
Excerpts from Yongstown Vindicator April 11, 2009
Margery was raised on a farm near Millport but relocated to Youngstown Ohio in 1938, graduating from South High School in 1942.
During World War II, as a teenager, she stepped forward and was the first woman to work the Truscon Steel Company main shipyard, doing dangerous and difficult work such as welding bulkheads on Liberty ships. Subsequestly, she was selected as a candidate for the U.S.Weather Bureau training school in Kansas City. Succesfully graduating, the future Mrs hunter joined the U.S. Weather Bureau as a meterorologist and weather forcaster. Mrs Hunter was kown for her life-long love of painting , membership in the DAR and for historical reading and musical studies.
She married Waldo S Hunter II Nov 21, 1945 in Elkton, MD.
Excerpts from Yongstown Vindicator April 11, 2009
During World War II, as a teenager, she stepped forward and was the first woman to work the Truscon Steel Company main shipyard, doing dangerous and difficult work such as welding bulkheads on Liberty ships. Subsequestly, she was selected as a candidate for the U.S.Weather Bureau training school in Kansas City. Succesfully graduating, the future Mrs hunter joined the U.S. Weather Bureau as a meterorologist and weather forcaster. Mrs Hunter was kown for her life-long love of painting , membership in the DAR and for historical reading and musical studies.
She married Waldo S Hunter II Nov 21, 1945 in Elkton, MD.
Excerpts from Yongstown Vindicator April 11, 2009
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Her ashes were buried on her birthday May 8, 2009 in the Swaney family plot.
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