Slade, Eleanor

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Eleanor Slade was born on September 4, 1922, in Orange, New Jersey, to Ethel May Spillinger and Alan Arthur Slade. She had one brother Alan and in Rye her family lived at 36 Meadow Place. Eleanor attended Milton School and was a Rye High School Graduate, Class of 1941. She attended Green Mountain Junior College and Boston University.

Eleanor enlisted on July 13, 1944, when she was 21 years old and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. She joined the Women’s Reserve U S Naval Reserve and attended Naval Training School at Hunter College the Bronx for indoctrination in the WAVES.

Eleanor Slade Joins WAVES

Miss Eleanor Slade, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Alan A. Slade, 36 Meadow
Place, has joined the Women’s Reserve U. S. Naval Reserve and will
soon be ordered to the U. S. Naval
Training School at Hunter College,
Bronx, for indoctrination in the
WAVES.
Miss Slade ll the third member of
her family to join the colors. Her
father is an executive officer in the
Army Aii Force, Eastern District, N.
YΓÇ₧ and her brother, Alan, is with an
infantry regiment at Camp McCain,
Miss. She attended Rye High School,
Green Mountain Junior College and
Boston University.

RYE, NEW YORK FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1944

The United States Naval Reserve (Women’s Reserve), was the women’s branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. It was established on July 21, 1942 by an Act of Congress and signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The purpose of the law was to release officers and men for sea duty and replace them with women in shore establishments.

During World War II some 100,000 WAVES served in a wide variety of capacities, ranging from performing essential clerical duties to serving as instructors for male pilots-in-training. At least one-third of the WAVES were assigned to naval aviation duties.

When Eleanor completed her basic training she received orders to report for duty at the Washington, DC Naval Barracks. Her service number was 785 50 73 (SEE NAVY MUSTER ROLLS)

Tragically, her brother Alan Arthur Slade was killed in action on February 26, 1945, in Luxembourg when Eleanor was 22 years old.

After her discharge, Eleanor continued at Boston University College of Music, earned her degree and met her future husband. She married Homer Maxim Lincoln on April 2, 1949, in Wilton, Connecticut.

Homer M Lincoln Eleanor Slade in Wilton

Eleanor Slade of Wilton, Conn.,
formerly of Rye. was married to
Home r Maxim Lincoln of Quincy,
Mass. on April 2, at the Congregational Church of Wilton in the
presence of the groom’s mother,
Mrs. Maud Lincoln of Wayne, Me.,
and the bride’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alan A. Slade of Wilton. The
simple and impressive ceremony
was conducted by Rey. Albert C.
Ronander, pastor of the church.
T he bride graduated from Milton School, Rye High School and
Green Mountain Junior College.
He r studies, continued at Boston
University College of Music, were
interrupted by a two-year enlistment with the WAVES and will
be completed this June .
Mr. Lincoln is also completing,
this year, his courses at 15. V. after
a four year term with the Army
Engineers in the Pacific theatre
of operations. The couple will reside at Braintree, Mass., on their
return from their wedding trip.

THE RYE CHRONICLE
Thursday, April 7, 1949

The couple would settle in Wilton, Ct where Eleanor was involved in various community activities. She sang in her church choir and many local choruses throughout Fairfield County, where she was often a soloist.

Eleanor Slade died on September 11, 1985, in Wilton, Connecticut, at the age of 63.