Enlistment Date: October 1, 1943 at Des Moines
Service Number: A-702663
Signal Corps
Manning Monitor articles ------ 1943
Regilda Fraser Completes Basic There are now more than 400 jobs listed by
the Army, replacing soldiers with Wales. Among them are: Regilda Fraser Joins WACs Mrs. Regilda Fraser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoffmann, has been accepted into the Women's Army Corps of the United States Army and is awaiting her call to service. Mrs. Fraser will be stationed at Daytona Beach, Florida, Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, or Des Moines.
Mrs. Fraser is a graduate of Manning high school and the California Commercial College
of Los Angeles. She has been employed by the California State Motor Vehicle department
at Fresno and worked for seven years in the accounting department of the Southern
Pacific Railroad Company at Los Angeles. Pvt. Regilda Fraser in WACS Fort Des Moines, Iowa Pvt. Regilda M. Fraser of Manning has begun training at the First Women's Army Corps Training Center here. She was immediately assigned to a Receiving Center company for a week of elementary training. Here she was issued clothing and equipment, instructed in rudiments of drill, and given Army classification tests. For the following four weeks, she will be assigned to a Basic company for more detailed training preparing her to replace a man in non-combat Army job. Manning Monitor articles ------ 1944
Regilda Fraser At Boston
Private Fraser is a graduate of the Manning High School and prior to her enlistment in the
WAC she was employed by the Coast to Coast Stores in Manning as bookkeeper and clerk. Regilda Fraser Writes About WAC Richmond, Ky., Jan. 9 The Manning Monitor and The American Legion, Emil Ewoldt Post No. 22, Manning, Iowa: I want to express my appreciation and thanks to the Manning Monitor and to the American Legion for sending the "Monitor" to me.
Getting news from home is one of the best ways of keeping our morale high. Receives Promotion Regilda Fraser of the WAC was promoted to Pfc shortly after her return from a furlough here. Manning Monitor articles ------ 1945
Promoted to Corporal Regilda Fraser Is Home From Wac's Regilda M. Fraser returned to her home in Manning last week after serving more than two years as a member of the women's army corps. She held the rating of sergeant when receiving her honorable discharge at Fort Des Moines.
Mrs. Fraser spent most of her time at Boston, Mass., where her duties included activities
with troops leaving and arriving at the ports there. |
SERVICES THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER 2, 1995, 2:00 PM OHDE FUNERAL HOME MANNING, IOWA
OFFICIATING REVEREND MARSHALL BROWN FIRST
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH MANNING, IOWA
INTERMENT MANNING CITY CEMETERY MANNING,
IOWA
CASKETBEARERS: DICK CRANDALL, KEITH
KELDERMAN, DEAN HOFFMANN, LYLE HOFFMANN, HAROLD HOFFMANN, CLIFFORD TANK
MILITARY HONORS EMIL EWOLDT POST 22
OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS POST 3517 MANNING, IOWA.
IOWA LAW: DRIVERS IN A FUNERAL PROCESSION MUST TURN ON VEHICLE LIGHTS
Regilda, daughter of Herman and Margaretha Claussen Hoffmann, was born October 28, 1902, at Manning, Iowa. She attended Manning schools and graduated from Manning High School in 1920. Regilda then taught school in Aspinwall for one year before moving to Los Angeles, California, where she enrolled in California-Brownberger Commercial College. After finishing the secretarial course Regilda worked as a secretary for Southern Pacific Railway.
On October 15, 1924, Regilda was united in marriage with Carl Fraser. They made their home in Alhambra, California.
During World War II Regilda joined the Women's Army Corps at Fort Dodge, Iowa and served mostly in the Boston and Philadelphia area. Following the war she worked as a secretary at the Statler Hotel in Boston for six years. She returned to Manning to assist in the care of her parents and also worked for a time at the Kuhl and Vogt and Coast to Coast Stores.
Regilda became National Sergeant at Arms of the W.A.C. Veterans in 1954 and attended their national convention in Washington, D.C. held in May, 1955.
Due to failing health Regilda entered the Manning Plaza in March of 1988. She died
there on Tuesday morning, October 31, 1995, at the age of 93 years and 3 days.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her brother, Renald and his wife, the
former Vivian Enenbach.
Regilda is survived by a number of cousins.