Daughter of Joseph Everett Parker and Esther Nettie Irene (Leis) Parker (1897-1957).
The photo of Mrs. Fraley wearing the bandana added by Grave Tag'r (46491198), was taken in September 2016 by John P. Fraley and appeared in her obituary featured in the New York Times on January 22, 2018. The photo added by Bulldog Fan (48178484) of Mrs. Fraley in bed with the poster behind her was taken in May 2017 by Bill Wagner of THE DAILY NEWS in Longview, Washington and featured in two articles published in THE DAILY NEWS on May 27, 2017 and on March 13, 2018. The 1942 black and white photograph added by John W. Littleton III, of Miss Naomi Parker is from Getty Images. The "We Can Do It!" poster added by az (49716916) was produced in 1943 by artist J. Howard Miller as a work-incentive poster for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
The following information added by Find a Grave Contributor John W. Littleton III (48855366). I removed the names of living people: "Mrs. Fraley's first marriage, to Joseph Blankenship ended in divorce; her second, to John Muhlig, ended with his death in 1971. Her third husband, Charles Fraley, whom she married in 1979, died in 1998. Her survivors include a son...four stepsons...two stepdaughters...two sisters...three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. Her death was confirmed by her daughter-in-law..."
The following paragraphs submitted by Find a Grave Contributor: C.A. Brooman (4860146):
Naomi Parker Fraley was just identified---in the Tuesday, January 23, 2018 New York Times, with the best obituary EVER! (see link below)---as having been the REAL inspiration for the "Rosie the Riveter" poster during World War II. There was a newspaper photo of a woman in a polka-dotted headscarf working at an industrial lathe, on which the "Rosie the Riveter" poster was based, which turned out to have been a young Naomi Parker.
Another woman from Michigan has claimed all these years to have been the "Rosie the Riveter" on whom the poster was based (her FindAGrave page to this day identifies her as the wayyyy famous model for the poster. I want to make sure that Naomi gets the credit she deserves. (I must comment that if I saw an old photo, I would instinctively know whether that photo was of me or of someone else. I would remember whether my picture was taken by a newspaper photographer! I'm just sayin'.)
The New York Times article actually made the FRONT PAGE of the paper(!!) and continued in the Obituary section. There is a photo of Naomi holding the poster, and a reprint of the infamous newspaper photo on which the poster was based.
The discovery about who was the original "Rosie the Riveter" was due to the research of a scholar named Dr. James J. Kimble, who devoted six years to the effort and finally located (at a vintage photo dealer) the original photo from which the newspaper photo was printed. The original captions were on the photo: "March 24, 1942" and "Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating." The location was Alameda, California. (The "Rosie the Riveter" impostor had claimed the photo was taken in Michigan. Busted!)
The online version of the New York Times article is at this address:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html
The article is titled, "The Real Rosie the Riveter, Unrecognized for 7 Decades, Dies at 96." It takes up the bottom lefthand corner of the front page, and about 5/8 of a page in the Obit section. (Huge!)."
The photo of Mrs. Fraley wearing the bandana added by Grave Tag'r (46491198), was taken in September 2016 by John P. Fraley and appeared in her obituary featured in the New York Times on January 22, 2018. The photo added by Bulldog Fan (48178484) of Mrs. Fraley in bed with the poster behind her was taken in May 2017 by Bill Wagner of THE DAILY NEWS in Longview, Washington and featured in two articles published in THE DAILY NEWS on May 27, 2017 and on March 13, 2018. The 1942 black and white photograph added by John W. Littleton III, of Miss Naomi Parker is from Getty Images. The "We Can Do It!" poster added by az (49716916) was produced in 1943 by artist J. Howard Miller as a work-incentive poster for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
The following information added by Find a Grave Contributor John W. Littleton III (48855366). I removed the names of living people: "Mrs. Fraley's first marriage, to Joseph Blankenship ended in divorce; her second, to John Muhlig, ended with his death in 1971. Her third husband, Charles Fraley, whom she married in 1979, died in 1998. Her survivors include a son...four stepsons...two stepdaughters...two sisters...three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. Her death was confirmed by her daughter-in-law..."
The following paragraphs submitted by Find a Grave Contributor: C.A. Brooman (4860146):
Naomi Parker Fraley was just identified---in the Tuesday, January 23, 2018 New York Times, with the best obituary EVER! (see link below)---as having been the REAL inspiration for the "Rosie the Riveter" poster during World War II. There was a newspaper photo of a woman in a polka-dotted headscarf working at an industrial lathe, on which the "Rosie the Riveter" poster was based, which turned out to have been a young Naomi Parker.
Another woman from Michigan has claimed all these years to have been the "Rosie the Riveter" on whom the poster was based (her FindAGrave page to this day identifies her as the wayyyy famous model for the poster. I want to make sure that Naomi gets the credit she deserves. (I must comment that if I saw an old photo, I would instinctively know whether that photo was of me or of someone else. I would remember whether my picture was taken by a newspaper photographer! I'm just sayin'.)
The New York Times article actually made the FRONT PAGE of the paper(!!) and continued in the Obituary section. There is a photo of Naomi holding the poster, and a reprint of the infamous newspaper photo on which the poster was based.
The discovery about who was the original "Rosie the Riveter" was due to the research of a scholar named Dr. James J. Kimble, who devoted six years to the effort and finally located (at a vintage photo dealer) the original photo from which the newspaper photo was printed. The original captions were on the photo: "March 24, 1942" and "Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating." The location was Alameda, California. (The "Rosie the Riveter" impostor had claimed the photo was taken in Michigan. Busted!)
The online version of the New York Times article is at this address:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html
The article is titled, "The Real Rosie the Riveter, Unrecognized for 7 Decades, Dies at 96." It takes up the bottom lefthand corner of the front page, and about 5/8 of a page in the Obit section. (Huge!)."
Daughter of Joseph Everett Parker and Esther Nettie Irene (Leis) Parker (1897-1957).
The photo of Mrs. Fraley wearing the bandana added by Grave Tag'r (46491198), was taken in September 2016 by John P. Fraley and appeared in her obituary featured in the New York Times on January 22, 2018. The photo added by Bulldog Fan (48178484) of Mrs. Fraley in bed with the poster behind her was taken in May 2017 by Bill Wagner of THE DAILY NEWS in Longview, Washington and featured in two articles published in THE DAILY NEWS on May 27, 2017 and on March 13, 2018. The 1942 black and white photograph added by John W. Littleton III, of Miss Naomi Parker is from Getty Images. The "We Can Do It!" poster added by az (49716916) was produced in 1943 by artist J. Howard Miller as a work-incentive poster for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
The following information added by Find a Grave Contributor John W. Littleton III (48855366). I removed the names of living people: "Mrs. Fraley's first marriage, to Joseph Blankenship ended in divorce; her second, to John Muhlig, ended with his death in 1971. Her third husband, Charles Fraley, whom she married in 1979, died in 1998. Her survivors include a son...four stepsons...two stepdaughters...two sisters...three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. Her death was confirmed by her daughter-in-law..."
The following paragraphs submitted by Find a Grave Contributor: C.A. Brooman (4860146):
Naomi Parker Fraley was just identified---in the Tuesday, January 23, 2018 New York Times, with the best obituary EVER! (see link below)---as having been the REAL inspiration for the "Rosie the Riveter" poster during World War II. There was a newspaper photo of a woman in a polka-dotted headscarf working at an industrial lathe, on which the "Rosie the Riveter" poster was based, which turned out to have been a young Naomi Parker.
Another woman from Michigan has claimed all these years to have been the "Rosie the Riveter" on whom the poster was based (her FindAGrave page to this day identifies her as the wayyyy famous model for the poster. I want to make sure that Naomi gets the credit she deserves. (I must comment that if I saw an old photo, I would instinctively know whether that photo was of me or of someone else. I would remember whether my picture was taken by a newspaper photographer! I'm just sayin'.)
The New York Times article actually made the FRONT PAGE of the paper(!!) and continued in the Obituary section. There is a photo of Naomi holding the poster, and a reprint of the infamous newspaper photo on which the poster was based.
The discovery about who was the original "Rosie the Riveter" was due to the research of a scholar named Dr. James J. Kimble, who devoted six years to the effort and finally located (at a vintage photo dealer) the original photo from which the newspaper photo was printed. The original captions were on the photo: "March 24, 1942" and "Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating." The location was Alameda, California. (The "Rosie the Riveter" impostor had claimed the photo was taken in Michigan. Busted!)
The online version of the New York Times article is at this address:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html
The article is titled, "The Real Rosie the Riveter, Unrecognized for 7 Decades, Dies at 96." It takes up the bottom lefthand corner of the front page, and about 5/8 of a page in the Obit section. (Huge!)."
The photo of Mrs. Fraley wearing the bandana added by Grave Tag'r (46491198), was taken in September 2016 by John P. Fraley and appeared in her obituary featured in the New York Times on January 22, 2018. The photo added by Bulldog Fan (48178484) of Mrs. Fraley in bed with the poster behind her was taken in May 2017 by Bill Wagner of THE DAILY NEWS in Longview, Washington and featured in two articles published in THE DAILY NEWS on May 27, 2017 and on March 13, 2018. The 1942 black and white photograph added by John W. Littleton III, of Miss Naomi Parker is from Getty Images. The "We Can Do It!" poster added by az (49716916) was produced in 1943 by artist J. Howard Miller as a work-incentive poster for the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company.
The following information added by Find a Grave Contributor John W. Littleton III (48855366). I removed the names of living people: "Mrs. Fraley's first marriage, to Joseph Blankenship ended in divorce; her second, to John Muhlig, ended with his death in 1971. Her third husband, Charles Fraley, whom she married in 1979, died in 1998. Her survivors include a son...four stepsons...two stepdaughters...two sisters...three grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and many step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren. Her death was confirmed by her daughter-in-law..."
The following paragraphs submitted by Find a Grave Contributor: C.A. Brooman (4860146):
Naomi Parker Fraley was just identified---in the Tuesday, January 23, 2018 New York Times, with the best obituary EVER! (see link below)---as having been the REAL inspiration for the "Rosie the Riveter" poster during World War II. There was a newspaper photo of a woman in a polka-dotted headscarf working at an industrial lathe, on which the "Rosie the Riveter" poster was based, which turned out to have been a young Naomi Parker.
Another woman from Michigan has claimed all these years to have been the "Rosie the Riveter" on whom the poster was based (her FindAGrave page to this day identifies her as the wayyyy famous model for the poster. I want to make sure that Naomi gets the credit she deserves. (I must comment that if I saw an old photo, I would instinctively know whether that photo was of me or of someone else. I would remember whether my picture was taken by a newspaper photographer! I'm just sayin'.)
The New York Times article actually made the FRONT PAGE of the paper(!!) and continued in the Obituary section. There is a photo of Naomi holding the poster, and a reprint of the infamous newspaper photo on which the poster was based.
The discovery about who was the original "Rosie the Riveter" was due to the research of a scholar named Dr. James J. Kimble, who devoted six years to the effort and finally located (at a vintage photo dealer) the original photo from which the newspaper photo was printed. The original captions were on the photo: "March 24, 1942" and "Pretty Naomi Parker looks like she might catch her nose in the turret lathe she is operating." The location was Alameda, California. (The "Rosie the Riveter" impostor had claimed the photo was taken in Michigan. Busted!)
The online version of the New York Times article is at this address:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/22/obituaries/naomi-parker-fraley-the-real-rosie-the-riveter-dies-at-96.html
The article is titled, "The Real Rosie the Riveter, Unrecognized for 7 Decades, Dies at 96." It takes up the bottom lefthand corner of the front page, and about 5/8 of a page in the Obit section. (Huge!)."
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