tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post1324917687477172929..comments2024-03-27T12:14:43.107-07:00Comments on WASP Final Flight: Betty Jo Streff Reed, 44-W-7 June 22, 2013Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-41695349250153756252021-11-22T16:55:22.527-08:002021-11-22T16:55:22.527-08:00I was honored to care for Betty Jo as her Hospice ...I was honored to care for Betty Jo as her Hospice RN many years ago in 2013. She's a woman you can't easily forget. She signed a poster of her and several of her fellow WASPs for me and it is one of few treasured items. She even gave me a sticker of the WASP "gremlin" designed by Walt Disney to be used by these women during the war. I think of her often. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08281864281073899146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-70020029717501629252015-10-11T10:41:47.707-07:002015-10-11T10:41:47.707-07:00Betty Jo was my first best friend. We were docent...Betty Jo was my first best friend. We were docents at the Champlain Fighter Aircraft Museum together. We took two long road trips to New Mexico together. She was 74 and I was 16. She was one of the biggest influences in my life. The time we spent together...the hundreds of long talks we had...formed a large part of me. The adventures, rabbit trails, moments to savour. I wish I could call her Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05324579210682106660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-60981138302421162132015-05-28T05:07:11.621-07:002015-05-28T05:07:11.621-07:00I recv'd a signed 2008 WASP Reunion poster fro...I recv'd a signed 2008 WASP Reunion poster from a friend. Betty Jo, Ellen Wimberly and Eileen Wright are propped against a plane on Avenger Field. I have the poster on the wall at work to remind me of all the wonderful women who came before me; who didn't take 'no' as the answer and had the one person who believed in them...themselves. <br /><br />Eleanor Roosevelt said it best,Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14046569311258801105noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5303268314503018808.post-61037264702235522802013-07-15T10:37:13.796-07:002013-07-15T10:37:13.796-07:00Thank you Nancy for your personal note. The feeli...Thank you Nancy for your personal note. The feelings you expressed were very close to my own Birdlegs experience. She was a positive light and I was lucky to spend the brief time I did with her.<br /><br />Elaine McLaughlinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com