Violet Margaret Vierima
Era: World War II
Military Branch: Marines
Vierima, Violet Margaret
Violet Margaret Vierima was born on this date to Nicholas John & Saima Johanna [Maima] in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1919.
Ms. Vierima enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps. during WWII. Her brother William had already enlisted in the Army. She rose to the rank of Private First Class (PFC).
PFC Vierima was assigned as a communications teletype operator for the Aviation Women's Reserve Squadron-7 in El Toro, California.
After the war, she married Arthur L Peterson on November 25th 1946 in San Juan, New Mexico. They lived in San Francisco, New Mexico and Colorado.
Mrs. Peterson died on November 24th in Durango, Colorado at the age of 95 years old..
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