Charles E. Walters Elementary School

Frances Stewart (Middle Island)

Frances Stewart was born on May 28, 1919 in Easton, Pennsylvania. She was the daughter of Eva (Ellsworth Johnson) and the Reverend William Stewart. Before entering the service she was employed as a teacher at the Medford School. Miss Stewart enlisted in the Coast Guard in November of 1943 and entered the service on February 1, 1944. She was sent to the Coast Guard Training Station at Palm Beach, Florida for boot camp and also attended Storekeeper School. Stewart would spend from July 1944 to her discharge in May, 1946 at Charleston, South Carolina, DCGO, 6^th N.D. A brother Norman Stewart would serve in the Army Air Force.