Regilda M. (Hoffmann) Fraser

1902 - 1995
Sergeant US Army

Enlistment Date: October 1, 1943 at Des Moines
Service Number: A-702663



Barracks T-713
Company 20 -- Third Regiment
1st Platoon
Ft. Des Moines, IA.

 

Signal Corps

US Army
Boston POE
B.P.O.E. 44 - 1888

Manning Monitor articles ------ 1943

Regilda Fraser Completes Basic
Fort Des Moines, Iowa-Private Regilda M. Fraser, of Manning has completed basic training at the First Women's Army Corps Training Center here, and has been selected for specialist training in Army Administration School, Richmond, Ky.
She will receive additional training in a specialized field preparatory to taking over an Army job, releasing a soldier for combat duty.

There are now more than 400 jobs listed by the Army, replacing soldiers with Wales. Among them are:
Bakers and cooks, draftsmen, truck drivers, library aids, radio operators, radio technicians, statisticians, stenographers telephone operators, typists, machine record operators, photographers photo laboratory technicians, radio repairmen, link trainer instructors, aircraft and automobile mechanics, weather observers, chauffeurs and classification specialists.


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.
At present she is in the employ of the Coast-to-Coast Store in Manning.


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
Regilda M. Fraser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Herman Hoffman of 320 Third St. Manning is now assigned to duty with the Boston Port of Embarkation, as a Private in the Women's Army Corps, Army Transportation Corps.

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.
She received her basic training in Ft. Des Moines, Iowa and successfully completed the course of study offered by the Army Administration school, WAC Branch No. 6 in Richmond, Kentucky.


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.
At present, we are being instructed how to do all types of office procedures, according to the standards of the army, at Eastern Kentucky State Teachers' College. Upon completion of this course, we will be sent out into the field to our specially assigned duties.
There are a great many interesting and historical places of interest in this territory.
I visited Lexington, Ky., the blue grass country, where a good many horse farms are located. Saw quite a few famous horses, among them Man-oWar, War Admiral, and Sir Gallahad.
The home of Mary Todd, who became Abraham Lincoln's wife, is located just at the edge of Lexington. Also visited at Berea, Ky., where one of the finest colleges is located.
With best regards to everyone at Manning, and again thanks, Sincerely, (Pvt.) Regilda M. Fraser.


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
W. A. C. Pfc. Regildia M. Fraser has been promoted to Corporal at the Army Base, Boston, Mass.


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.
She enjoyed her service in the army, but admitted it was good to get back home and added she will remain at home in Manning with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Hoffmann.


IN MEMORY OF REGILDA FRASER

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 M. Fraser
Manning Monitor
November 9, 1995

Funeral services for Regilda Fraser were held Thursday, November 2, 1995 at 2:00 p.m. at Ohde Funeral Home in Manning, Iowa. Reverend Marshall Brown of the First Presbyterian Church, Manning, Iowa, officiated the service.
Interment was held in Manning City Cemetery, Manning, Iowa with Dick Crandall, Keith Kelderman, Dean Hoffmann, Lyle Hoffmann, Harold Hoffmann, Clifford Tank as casketbearers.
Military honors were by Emil Ewoldt Post 22 of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3517, both of Manning, Iowa.

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.


Regilda Fraser is buried in the Manning City Cemetery.
Section D Row #9 north - south.