Schueller, Mary Rose, 1909-1981
biographical statement
Mary Rose Schueller was born to Mathias and Barbara Schueller, in Wabasso, Minnesota. Ms. Schueller was rorking as a teacher before enlisting in the Navy reserves. She began her service at Cabaniss Field, Corpus Christi, TX, receiving orders overseas on 9 Jun 1945, reporting in at San Francisco on 14 July. She refers to the barracks at the Naval Transfer and Distribution Center, Shoemaker, California as "Shoving-Off Hotel". "Overseas" for Ms. Schueller meant Hawaii. She was also one of only a few WAVES that served as actual air crew members and flew in combat planes as a teacher of air navigation. After war's end, Ms. Schueller left Hawaii (12 Dec 1945) onboard the Navy hospital ship USS Consolation bound for San Francisco, where she boarded a train to Chicago. She would eventually marry, and is interred in the cemetery in Wabasso, Minnesota, as Mary Rose Schueller Bowen.