On Mary Barnes’s 103rd birthday, she had only one request. Actually, two. She told her family and friends that she wanted to celebrate her big day with crab cakes and beer.
to be put to work after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Navy Women’s Reserve Act into law.
One of her male colleagues told Mary that the only reason she joined the Navy was to find a husband, she recalled.After 3½ years in Hawaii, and another year in the Navy Reserves, she said she did find a husband — or maybe he found her. She and her husband raised two children — Martha and Mark Barnes, and Fred worked for the Department of Defense while Mary spent more than 20 years working for“There were times when we didn’t have a lot of money, and Mom would show us we could still have fun by enjoying the simple things,” Martha Barnes recalled.
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