Wyall, Marty

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Name
Wyall, Marty Gender: F
Mary Anna Martin
born on 24 January 1922 at 23:00 (= 11:00 PM )
Place Liberty, Indiana, 39n38, 84w56
Timezone CST h6w (is standard time)
Data source
BC/BR in hand
Rodden Rating AA
Collector: Scholfield
Astrology data s_su.18.gif s_aqucol.18.gif 04°28' s_mo.18.gif s_capcol.18.gif 03°22 Asc.s_libcol.18.gif 19°02'



Marty Wyall (posed in front of an older portrait of herself in 2008)

Biography

American aviator who was part of the last class of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) and later became the unofficial WASP historian. She was instrumental in organizing the WASP veterans together years after they served.

After WASP was disbanded, Wyall worked as a pilot for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. She later worked at the Sky Harbor Airport as a ferry pilot and a flight instructor at Franklin Flying Field. In 1946, she married and raised five children with her husband, Eugene Andrew Wyall in Fort Wayne.

Wyall was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in 2010. In 2011, she was inducted into the Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame. She died in Fort Wayne on 9 March 2017 at age 95.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Events

  • Relationship : Marriage 1946 (Eugene Andrew Wyall)
  • Work : Prize 2010 (Congressional Gold Medal)
  • Work : Prize 2011 (Women in Aviation International Pioneer Hall of Fame)

Source Notes

Sy Scholfield provided birth certificate.

Categories

  • Family : Parenting : Kids more than 3 (Five)
  • Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Grant, Scholarship, etc. (College music scholarship)
  • Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 95)
  • Vocation : Education : Teacher (Flight instructor)
  • Vocation : Humanities+Social Sciences : Historian
  • Vocation : Military : Military service (WASP)
  • Vocation : Travel : Pilot/ commercial
  • Vocation : Travel : Pilot/ military (WASP)
  • Notable : Awards : Hall of Fame (Women in Aviation International Pioneer)
  • Notable : Awards : Public Service (Congressional Gold Medal)