Jeanne Marie Wise Kelly

Specialist Petty Officer 2nd Class, Jeanne Marie Wise Kelly

Born: February 22, 1922
Died: January 21, 1993

Female Veteran | US Navy | WAVES | World War II
French Funerals and Cremations. “Obituary for Carmela Blumenthal,” June 21, 2018

Burial Site: SFNC, Section 27B, Site 473

Jeanne Marie Wise Kelly served as an enlisted instructor in Free Aerial Gunnery for the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES).1 Kelly trained at Hunter College N.Y.C., and was stationed at Pensacola Naval Air Base.1

Kelly was born February 22, 1922 in Scarsdale, New York.1 In 1941, she graduated from Pine Manor Junior College.1 After graduating, she worked in New York City, New York and Hollywood, California prior to joining the WAVES. She returned to work at the end of the war.1 In 1949, Kelly travelled to Santa Fe, NM for six months, where she met her husband Daniel T. Kelly, who served in World War II and the Korean War.1,2 Kelly had five children and worked as a philanthropist for the remainder of her life in Santa Fe.1

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Jeanne Marie Wise Kelly’s grave marker

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Funeral Notice for Jeanne Marie Wise Kellly in “The Santa Fe New Mexican”

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Wedding Announcement from “The Albuquerque Journal”

Notes:

  1. “KELLY.” The Santa Fe New Mexican, January 22, 1993. Newspapers.com
  2. “Wedding Announcement.”: The Albuquerque Journal, November 29, 1953. Newspapers.com

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Featured Image:SPGM2 Jeanne Marie Wise Kelly. Find a Grave. Accessed June 25, 2023. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/214681734/jeanne-marie-kelly

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