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Boeing honors Mexico resident for her 100th birthday Published by admin on Tue, 04/27/2021 - 8:02am Boeing representative Chris Bray, right, presents Bertha Clarke with a commemorative bandana on Tuesday, April 20, as Kurt LaBelle records the moment. Boeing helped celebrate Clarke s 100th birthday. [Dave Faries]
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In 1942 Bertha Clarke went to Boeing in search of a job. Her husband, a military policeman, was stationed in Seattle and her allotment from his pay only went so far.
“I needed a little pocket money,” Clarke explained.
On Tuesday representatives from Boeing came to her home in Mexico to thank Clarke for her work. The occasion was the approach of Clarke’s 100th birthday, so they brought gifts – books, collectibles and the model of a B-17, the plane she helped to build.
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LEVITTOWN, Pennsylvania (WPVI) Mae Krier of Levittown, a real-life Rosie the Riveter, recently received the surprise of a lifetime via Zoom from Boeing CEO David Calhoun.
Calhoun announced the aeronautical company will soon launch a flight into space in honor of all Rosie the Riveters, the millions of women who joined the workforce to help during World War II.
Boeing is sending Rosie the Rocketeer, a robot in a capsule, to the International Space Station. To imagine we ve got a bandana in space is unbelievable, Krier said.
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When President Donald Trump signed into law Friday that the Congressional Gold Medal this year will be awarded to all the women who worked to support the military during World War II, Mae Krier, of Levittown, breathed a sigh of relief: Mission accomplished.
The Rosie the Riveters would, at last, be honored and remembered for their service to country.
“We finally got it. It’s official now,” Krier said. “We’re going down in history.”
Since the early 1980s, Krier has been working to get the recognition for the women who sometimes put themselves in danger to build the armaments needed to support the American troops fighting overseas.