I shot a story in March for the Westerville News and Public Opinion about the re opening of the History Resource Center in the Public Library in Westerville, Ohio. They had swing dancers perform a demonstration, and various artifacts on display from World War II. I walked around the display and I turned a corner and there she was; An older woman about my grandmothers age, possibly younger. She sat by a display of a poster that was used as a cover for a magazine of the US Marine Corps Women's Reserve. I did a double take, because the young woman on the poster was the younger version of the beautifully aged woman that sat by it.
Her name was Florence Fawley. Florence's ID photograph caught the eyes of the Brass. She was sent to Washington DC for a photo shoot, which became the concept for the poster that she sat by that day. The advertisement was popular nationwide. After she left the Army, Florence and her husband moved to Westerville where she currently resides.
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