UPDATED: Program will celebrate suffrage, aviation pioneers
The VFW Auxiliary is planning a special event to celebrate women’s suffrage and honor women pilots who aided the war effort at the Lake City Sportsman's Club on August 20 at 5:30 p.m. with a speaker at 6:30 p.m.
The event is in conjunction with women’s suffrage and to honor Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), women who flew aircraft and trained pilots to free male pilots to serve in combat during World War II. Lake City native Ethel Meyer Finley was a member of WASP. Finley died in 2006 at age 85.
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