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Ethel Rose (Maiden name Nace) was born March, 1924 in Harrisburg, PA. She was the second child of four. Both boys served during WWII. Her father was a veteran of WWI and a railroad engineer. She graduated high school in 1941 and was going to business college at the start of WWII. She was also working in the lab at a steel mill at night. She had to wait until she was 20 to enlist and joined the Marines in 1944. She was sent to Camp Lejeune for Basic Training. She became an aviation machinist and went to Norman, OK, and later El Toro, California. When the war ended, she was assigned to “mothball” the planes and was not demobilized until December 1946. After the war, she attended Duquesne University in Pittsburg under the GI Bill where she majored in Chemistry and minored in Math. She went on to Penn State for a Master’s Degree in Chemistry, but got married to an Army veteran/Chemistry Professor before continuing on with her PhD. She had her first child in 1952 and eventually had 3 more. She worked part time translating French and German papers to English and stayed home to raise her children.
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