Eva Jane Wheeler (1940)

Eva Jane Wheeler was born on July 19, 1916, in Hot Springs, Virginia to father, James, a laborer, and mother, Delilah, who was raising three children, according to the 1920 Census. Wheeler graduated from the Piedmont Nurse Training Program in May 1940. Wheeler served in the US Air Force during World War II and retired as a major. She died in 2009 in Illinois; her grave marker at Arlington National Cemetery lists her military service and rank.