The North Carolina birth index lists Cordelia'a name as Cordelia Gardner Hockaday, and her father as William T. Hockaday. She wed Vertner Ray Ward, Jr. on September 11, 1939, in Danville, Virginia. From her obituary: "She was a federal employee at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, Calif. She was also an electronics technician, chemistry lab technician and electron scanning microscope technician. She retired in 1977 from the Naval Weapons Center." Sounds like she was quite a lady!
The North Carolina birth index lists Cordelia'a name as Cordelia Gardner Hockaday, and her father as William T. Hockaday. She wed Vertner Ray Ward, Jr. on September 11, 1939, in Danville, Virginia. From her obituary: "She was a federal employee at the Naval Weapons Center in China Lake, Calif. She was also an electronics technician, chemistry lab technician and electron scanning microscope technician. She retired in 1977 from the Naval Weapons Center." Sounds like she was quite a lady!
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