Early Femmefen

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The Women Fen Don’t See
or, Women in Fandom Before Tricon[edit]

By Leah Zeldes Smith
Reprinted from Unsettled 73 (October 23, 2021).
© 2021 by Leah Zeldes Smith. Used with permission.

Tricon, the 1966 Worldcon, was notable in fanhistory for a number of reasons, but among them is that it screened the premiere of a new TV show: Star Trek. And after that came the deluge.

Common fannish lore says there were hardly any women in fandom before the Enterprise boldly flew across our television screens and fandom grew exponentially — but common fannish lore, and the poor memories and male fanhistorians who fed into it, are wrong.

Men did outnumber women in early 20th-century fandom, yet there were many female actifen even during fandom’s earliest days. (It’s worth noting that, by 1959, fanspeak had developed two nongender-specific pronouns, heesh and hiser.) René Walling’s research into Worldcon membership demographics, from 1939–60, shows that women made up roughly 20 percent of the attendance at early Worldcons. While Sam Moskowitz recalled that at the first Worldcon in 1939, “Of the 30 women in attendance only about 7 were interested in science fiction, the others were wives, sisters, and friends” — how could he know what they were interested in?

Much early fanboy grousing about the lack of women in fandom really meant not enough single — i.e., available — women. As Lee Hoffman recollected in Fanhistorica 1 (May 1976, p. 10): 

In those dark ages, a major complaint in fandom was the shortage of femfans. There were some, but not enough to go around. Young male fans in search of intellectual companionship often complained that all the active femfans came into fandom on the coattails of male fans (as girl friends or wives) and were subsequently unavailable. At the same time that they were voicing these complaints, they seemed to be taking a perverse chauvinistic pride in the predominant maleness of fandom.

Jack Speer was positively dismissive back in 1944, writing in Fancyclopedia 1, “The great majority of fans are male, and it has been asserted that females cannot be the psychological type of the s-f fan, but,” he acknowledged, “there are several dyed-in-the-wool fannes to refute this.” However, he went on to say, “In addition there are a lot of sweethearts, wives, daughters, sisters, etc. of the he-fans, who tag along at fan gatherings, make some appearance in the fanzines, and assist in dirty work like mimeoing.” As if all that weren’t fanac!

It’s important, though, when discussing fandom’s attitudes toward women, to compare with those of the macrocosm of the respective eras. Recollect that the first Worldcon was fewer than 20 years after the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote.

In general, the men of fandom were at least as welcoming of women in their events and doings as other men of their times, if not more so. Fandom was never, at least overtly, considered a boys’ club emblazoned, “Girls keep out!” The surprise and delight when Lee Hoffman turned out to be Hoffwoman shows that.

Male fans were, however, as blind as their mundane contemporaries to women’s accomplishments. The first Worldcon to have a female goh was back in 1946, but E. Mayne Hull was named jointly with her husband and collaborator, A. E. van Vogt. It wasn’t until 1975 that a woman pro, Ursula Le Guin, was honored solo.

The first woman to win any Hugo was Elinor Busby, for Best Fanzine in 1960, but that was jointly with her husband and two other men.[1] It took till 1988 for a zine edited by a woman alone to win — Pat Mueller’s Texas SF Inquirer — and not only was it a clubzine, but before the rocket was awarded, FACT, the sponsoring club, had taken the editorship away from her in favor of a man.

Worldcon didn’t name its first female fan goh until 1972: Juanita Coulson, but, again, she shared the honor with her husband, Buck. The first femmefan a Worldcon honored on her own was Lee Hoffman in 1982; it took another 30 years till the next — second-generation fan Peggy Rae Sapienza — in 2012!

Yes, some women first entered the microcosm as wives, girlfriends and daughters of male fen (or sisters, cousins and aunts), but they did their share of writing for the fmz, cranking the mimeos, organizing the clubs, designing and sewing the costumes and working on the cons. Five women — Dirce Archer, Noreen Falasca, Julian May, Anna Sinclare Moffatt and Ella Parker — chaired Worldcons before 1966. They count.

And — they were editing, writing and drawing for the prozines, too. We lay claim here to some female pros who may or may not have been especially fannish, but early in fanhistory, pros and fans formed one close-knit community in a way they haven’t in more recent times.

Women have been an important part of the science fiction community since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley invented the genre in 1818.

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  1. ↑ The next year’s award went to Earl Kemp for Who Killed Science Fiction?, according to TheHugoAwards.org as well as contemporary accounts. But if you look at the fanzine itself, you’ll see it’s credited to Earl and Nancy Kemp! Similarly, the first major fanzine index is historically attributed to R. D. Swisher, but the zines credit F. N. Swisher, his wife, as well.



Women in Fandom by 1966[edit]

This list of femmefen active by 1966, culled from convention and club membership lists, fanzines, fan directories and discussion on the Facebook Fanhistory group, is very much a work in progress, and is surely missing names. Moreover, such information as exists for many women is quite sketchy. Please do add what you can, especially for the redlinked names.

Note that lots of women had numerous name changes, so the person you’re thinking of may be there under another variant. (See “The Naming of Names.”)

  1. Wendayne Ackerman (Mondelle / Tilly Porjes / Mathilde Wahrman)
  2. Gillian “Jill” Adams
  3. Rose Alberti ff
  4. Beverly Amers (DeWeese)
  5. MayBelle Anshutz ff
  6. Florence S. Anderson (Stephenson)
  7. Karen Anderson (Kruse)
  8. Ruby A. Anderson
  9. Virginia Anderson (Combs / “Nanek”)
  10. Valeria K. Anjoorian (“Valkon”)
  11. Pearle Appleford
  12. Dirce Archer
  13. Eleanor Arnason
  14. Lynne Aronson
  15. Abby Lu Ashley
  16. Pauline Ashwell (Whitby)
  17. Sheila Ashworth
  18. Chris Atkinson
  19. Delcie Austin (Stuart)
  20. Betty Ballantine (Elizabeth Norah Jones)
  21. Irene Baron (Scortia)
  22. Evelyn Barrett ff
  23. Terry Bartfield (Terri Pinckard / Merat / Merrit)
  24. Jonne Evans Bates (Hanlon)
  25. Susie Beam (Rivers)
  26. Margaret Bertrand
  27. Judi Beatty-Sephton
  28. Virginia Beebe (Hoskins)
  29. Martha Beck
  30. Kay Becker
  31. Doris Beller
  32. Josie Benderavage
  33. Bess Benjamin
  34. Zelda Benowitz
  35. Beryl Bentcliffe (Watkins)
  36. Betty Berg
  37. Phyllis Berg (King)
  38. Jean Berman
  39. Ruth Berman
  40. Ruth Bernstein
  41. Diane Berry
  42. Margaret Bertrand
  43. Sandi Bethke (Gerber / Maia Nemzek)
  44. Helena Binns (Margaret Duce / Roberts)
  45. Judy Blish (Judith A. Lawrence)
  46. Barbara Bliss
  47. Gilda Blitzer
  48. Perdita Boardman (Lilly / Nelson / Girsdansky)
  49. Jean Bogert
  50. Shirley Booher
  51. Irene Boothroyd
  52. Barbara Bovard (Edge) ff
  53. Leigh Brackett
  54. Helen Bradleigh (Joan Domnick)
  55. Marion Zimmer Bradley
  56. Jacqui Bratton
  57. Catherine M. Brennan
  58. Barbara Brewster
  59. Kay Brickman
  60. Rohelen Brickman
  61. Marjorie Broadbent
  62. Marlene Broderick
  63. Beverly Bronson
  64. Jacqueline G. Brooks
  65. Rosel G. Brown
  66. Beverly Browne
  67. Margaret Brundage
  68. Marjorie Brunner
  69. Doris Pitkin Buck
  70. Daphne Buckmaster (Bradley)
  71. Edna Budrys (Duna)
  72. Pamela Bulmer (Buckmaster)
  73. Thelma Bunch
  74. Isabel Burbee
  75. Joyce Burke
  76. Kay Burwell
  77. Elinor Busby
  78. Freda Busfield
  79. Linda Bushyager (Eyster)
  80. JoAnne Calkins
  81. Doña Campbell (Stewart / Smith)
  82. Peg Campbell (Winter)
  83. Cynthia Carey
  84. Irene Carnell
  85. Carol Carr
  86. Edith Carr
  87. Gertrude M. Carr
  88. Miriam Carr (Miri Dyches / Knight / Lloyd)
  89. Jean Carrol (Jane McClain / Engel)
  90. Phyllis Carter
  91. Ann Chamberlain
  92. Penny Chandler (Bale)
  93. Evelyn Dolores Chappell
  94. Joan Chapman
  95. Ada Charles
  96. Pat Charnock
  97. Lorraine “Sandy” Charnoff
  98. Meredith Chatterton
  99. Lily Chibbett
  100. Bev Clark
  101. Eugenia Clark
  102. Gina Ellis Clarke (Georgina, “Dutch”)
  103. Joan Cleveland
  104. Eva Jane Clevenger
  105. Mildred Clingerman (McElroy)
  106. Audrey Clinton
  107. Jessie Clinton
  108. Helen Cloukey ff
  109. Martha Cohen
  110. Rosalind Cohen (Wylie) ff
  111. Esther “Es” Cole
  112. Eli Colter (May Eliza Frost / Harvey)
  113. Eva Conn
  114. Lillian Conway
  115. Peggy Cook
  116. Millen Cooke (Wilma Dorothy Millen Vermilyea / Belknap / Trench)
  117. Rita Coriell ff
  118. Leigh Couch
  119. Juanita Coulson (Wellons)
  120. Mary Elizabeth Counselman ff
  121. Lucille Counts
  122. Phyllisann Courtis
  123. Chantelle Covington
  124. Anne Cox (Myla Seidel)
  125. Marion Cox (Oakes)
  126. Margaret “Peggy” Crawford (Finn)
  127. Dian Crayne (Girard / Pelz)
  128. Pat Crossley
  129. Lora Crozetti
  130. Ruth Cuher ff
  131. Elizabeth Cullen
  132. Betty Cummings (Elizabeth Starr Hill) ff
  133. Monette Cummings
  134. Doris Currier
  135. Mary Marcarette Curry ff
  136. Betsy Curtis
  137. Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) ff
  138. Eleanor Daugherty (O’Brien)
  139. Virginia Daugherty (“Jim-E” or “Jimmy” Laney)
  140. Rose Davenport
  141. DEA (Margaret M. Dominick)
  142. Audrey Deane
  143. Dorothy de Courcy
  144. Miriam Allen deFord
  145. Marie DeJack
  146. Wilma DeMory
  147. Helen B. Dewey
  148. Shirley Dickensheet
  149. Ann Dietz (Ashe)
  150. Belle Dietz (Cohen)
  151. Ann Dinkleman
  152. Isabelle Dinwiddie
  153. Fay Dishington
  154. Sonya Dorman
  155. Ree Dragonette (Rita Marie Dragonetti)
  156. Sally Dunn (Brues / Kidd)
  157. Lorraine Dunkelberger
  158. Sheila Dvorak
  159. Mary Dziechowski
  160. Marion Eadie (Marion Turner / Fiona Turner)
  161. Rose Ebert
  162. Phyllis Economou
  163. Phyllis Eisenstein (Kleinstein)
  164. Jane Ellern (Gallion / Jacobs)
  165. Marjii Ellers
  166. Pat Ellington
  167. Sophie Wenzel Ellis ff
  168. Corinne Ellsworth
  169. Elaine Ellsworth
  170. Morjeanne Elman
  171. Carol Emshwiller
  172. Christine Entrekin
  173. Jill Esternik
  174. Frances Evans (Varley)
  175. Thelma Evans (T. D. Hamm / Morgan)
  176. Pat Everest
  177. Audrey Eversfield
  178. Edythe Eyde (“Tigrina”)
  179. Hazel R. Fahringer
  180. Djinn Faine (Virginia Russell / Dickson )
  181. Joyce Fairbairn (Youd)
  182. Rory Faulkner (Dorothea / “Dotty”)
  183. Alicia Feather ff
  184. Nancy Featherstone ff
  185. Harriet Fellas
  186. Marianne Ferguson ff
  187. Helen Finn
  188. Dorothy Finn (Hasse)
  189. Eva Firestone ff (Upton)
  190. Sue Francis
  191. Ruth Frayne
  192. Polly Freas
  193. Wendy Freeman
  194. Ingrid Fritzsch
  195. Elizabeth Foyster
  196. Edith Furcsik
  197. Anne Gardiner
  198. Helene Gardiner
  199. Frances Garfield (Wellman)
  200. Sonia Garner
  201. Beverly Garrett
  202. Jane Gaskell
  203. Nan Gerding
  204. Robbie Gibson (Roberta Collins)
  205. Sheila Gilbert (Elkin)
  206. Bea Gittery
  207. Helen Glaser
  208. Bea Glass
  209. Frances Glynn (Jason / Ferguson)
  210. Mary Gnaedinger ff
  211. Evelyn Paige Gold (Stein / Eve Paige Spencer)
  212. Cele Goldsmith (Lalli)
  213. Evelyn Goldstein
  214. Cynthia Goldstone
  215. Joy Goodwin (Clarke / Sanderson)
  216. Phyllis Gotlieb
  217. Jessica "Toni" Gould (Wilson)
  218. Diane Goulding (Ellingsworth)
  219. Mary Graham
  220. Penny Grant
  221. Roberta Gray (“Bobbie” or “Bobby” Wild)
  222. Jessamine Greer
  223. Jean Grennell
  224. Pauline Grimm
  225. Joyce Grissom
  226. Reta Grossman
  227. Arniece Gurley
  228. Rosalyn Gutstein
  229. Eunice Guyy
  230. Ann Hafler
  231. Gay Haldeman
  232. Vol Haldeman (Candace Ettlin)
  233. Sandy Hall (Alexandra or Sandra)
  234. Tikwis Hall
  235. Frances Hamling
  236. Joan Hammet
  237. Verna “Vee” Hampton
  238. Eclare Hannifen (Hilda Hoffman)
  239. Dorothy Hansen
  240. F. E. Hardart (Flossie Elizabeth Sheehan)
  241. Barbara Harmon (Gratz)
  242. Agnes Harook
  243. Clare Winger Harris ff
  244. Evelyn Harrison
  245. Dorothy Hartwell
  246. Laura Shay Hastings
  247. Harriet Hausman
  248. Margery Hawthorne
  249. Christine Haycock (Moskowitz)
  250. Cindy Heap (Cramer / Van Arnam / Williams)
  251. Helen S. Heap
  252. G. N. Hedinger
  253. Nella Hellinger
  254. Norma Hemming
  255. Gertrude “Trudy” Hemken (Caroline Ferber)
  256. Zenna Henderson
  257. Charlotte Hensley
  258. Freddie Hershey (Curtis)
  259. Mary Hershey (Gibson)
  260. Rosemary Hickey (Becker)
  261. Carolyn Hickman
  262. Carolyn Jo Higgs
  263. Alma Hill
  264. Hyacinthe Hill (Virginia Rose Cronin/Anderson)
  265. Dora Holland
  266. Joan Hunter Holly
  267. Caroline Prescott Hoar ff
  268. Lee Hoffman
  269. Doreen House
  270. Addie Huddleston
  271. Katya Hulan (Katherine Jean Wheat / Kathy Atkins / Stevens)
  272. E. Mayne Hull (van Vogt)
  273. Carole Ingersoll
  274. Margaret Irwin
  275. Sherry Jackson
  276. Sylvia Jacobs
  277. Lilian “Lily” Jaggers
  278. Mary Jameson ff
  279. Vida Jameson ff
  280. Elsie “Else” Janda
  281. Julie Ann Jardine
  282. Val Jeeves (Valerie Williams)
  283. Barbi Johnson
  284. Bertha Johnson
  285. Helen Johnson
  286. Marijane “Janey” Johnson
  287. Flora Jones
  288. Margaret Jones
  289. Marsha Jones (Elkin / Brown)
  290. Bertha Jordan
  291. Deborah Josephson
  292. Janet Kagan
  293. Marcia Kamien
  294. Sheila Mae Kamper
  295. Helen Weinbaum Kasson
  296. Joyce Katz (Worley / Fisher)
  297. Betty Keat ff
  298. Margaret Ford Keifer
  299. Bernice Keller ff
  300. Celia Keller
  301. Dorothea Keller
  302. Nancy Kemp
  303. Anne Keylock
  304. Rita Khrone
  305. Virginia Kidd (Emden / Blish)
  306. Betty Knight
  307. Gail Knuth (Joey Knuth / Gail Daniels / Thompson / Whiskin)
  308. Mary Kolb
  309. Harriett Kolchak
  310. Mary Kornbluth (Byers)
  311. Irene Korshak (Odenheimer)
  312. Anna Krenzel ff
  313. Eva "Wildcat" Kreuger
  314. Frances Krueger
  315. Bridges Kuhn
  316. Betty Kujawa
  317. Karen Kurz (Cooper-Johnston)
  318. Gertrude “Trudy” Kuslan (“tKuslan”) ff
  319. Ziva Kwitney (Sheckley)
  320. Ruth Kyle (Landis)
  321. Janie Lamb
  322. Marion Lansdale (Linwood)
  323. Deedee Lavender
  324. Lois Lavender
  325. Denise Laws
  326. Betty Leedham
  327. Alberta Leek
  328. Kathleen Leerburger
  329. Ursula K. Le Guin
  330. Jonquil "Johnny" Leiber (Stephens) ff
  331. Louise Leipiar (L. Major Reynolds)
  332. Madeleine L'Engle
  333. Dorothy Les Tina
  334. Suford Lewis (Susan Hereford)
  335. Barb Lex
  336. Olga Ley
  337. Frances "Fran" Light
  338. Annie Linard
  339. Pauline Lincoff
  340. Ethel Lindsay
  341. Fran Lipton
  342. Amelia Reynolds Long ff
  343. Lilith Lorraine ff
  344. Audrey Lovett
  345. Pat Lupoff
  346. Lesleigh Luttrell (Couch)
  347. Pam MacInnes
  348. Lil MacKay
  349. Renee MacKay
  350. Constance "Connie" MacKenzie
  351. Katherine MacLean (Kate Dye / Mason / West)
  352. Florence Magarian
  353. Bea Mahaffey
  354. Pat Mahaffey (Lake)
  355. Mary Mair
  356. Marion Mallinger
  357. Faye Manning
  358. Mercedes Mansfield
  359. Carmela Marceau
  360. Katherine Marcusson
  361. Cylvia K. Margulies (Kleinman)
  362. Shirley Marriott
  363. Mary Martin
  364. Adrienne Martine
  365. Winifred Marx
  366. Barbara May
  367. Julian May (Judy Dikty)
  368. Anne McCaffrey
  369. Orma McCormick
  370. Joyce “Lin” McDaniel (Potter / Johnstone / Jumper)
  371. Winnifred McGill
  372. Dorothy McIlwraith
  373. Shirley McKeown
  374. Renee McKie
  375. Carol McKinney
  376. Ann McKnight (Newell)
  377. Buddie McKnight (Lillian Heim Jacoby / Evans)
  378. Helene Mears
  379. Jean Mehegan
  380. Beryl Mercer (Henley)
  381. Judith Merril
  382. Lois Miles
  383. Terry Mill
  384. Virginia Mill
  385. Lynette Mills
  386. Pat Milnes (Doolan)
  387. Lesley Minard
  388. Zeda Mishler
  389. Anna Sinclare Moffatt (“Stfanna”)
  390. June Moffatt (Poulson / Konigsberg)
  391. Dora Hepner Moiteret
  392. Gisela Molander
  393. Laura Molesworth
  394. June Casey Monroe
  395. Frances Trego Montgomery
  396. Belle S. Mooney
  397. C. L. Moore (Catherine Lucille Kuttner)
  398. Nancy Moore (Shapiro)
  399. Ronnie Morgan (Takacs)
  400. Morojo (Myrtle R. Douglas) ff
  401. Daphne Muggoch
  402. Mary Munro
  403. Jeanette Nagle
  404. Monica Naughton
  405. Ann B. Nelson
  406. Lil Neville
  407. Ruth Newbury
  408. Marjorie Hope Nicolson
  409. Marilyn “Fuzzy Pink” Niven
  410. Jo Noble
  411. Andre Norton (Alice Mary Norton) ff
  412. Marge Nuttall
  413. Marijane Nuttall (M J Nuttall)
  414. Betty Nystrom
  415. Edith Ogutsch
  416. Judy Oppenheim
  417. Enid Jacobs Osten
  418. Patty Paccassi
  419. Pennie Palmer
  420. Cory Panshin (Seidman)
  421. Ella Parker (Canada)
  422. Ella Parker (U.K.)
  423. Ellen Parkes
  424. Celia Parks
  425. Ann Patrizio (Temple)
  426. Pat Patterson (Lyons)
  427. Amelia Pemberton
  428. Jan Penney (Sadler / Kauffman / Samuels)
  429. Jo Perew
  430. Leslie Perri ff
  431. Helen Perry
  432. Luise Perrin (Petty)
  433. Betty Peters
  434. Elaine Phillips
  435. Charlotte Picard
  436. Margaret Picken
  437. Marjorie Pickles
  438. Mavis Pickles
  439. Brenda Piper
  440. Audrey Plimpton
  441. Pogo (Mary Corinne “Patti” Gray / Russell / Wood) ff
  442. Carol Pohl (Metcalf / Ulf / Stanton)
  443. Nancy Pooley
  444. Elizabeth Pope
  445. Irene Potter (Gore)
  446. Lou Ann Price
  447. Valerie Purnell
  448. Dorothy Quick ff
  449. Dorothy Quinn
  450. Mary Quinn
  451. Jane Quirk
  452. Evonne Rae
  453. Joni Rapkin (Markwood)
  454. Nancy Rapp (“Kabu” / Nan Share)
  455. Dorothy Ratigan (Jacobs)
  456. Vanessa Redgrave
  457. Kit Reed
  458. Mary Reed (Legg / Long)
  459. Eugenie Reid
  460. Diane Reinsberg
  461. Jeannette Reol ff
  462. Carol Resnick
  463. Mona Lee Rhines
  464. Trina Robbins (Perlson / Castillo / Petit)
  465. Lottie Robins
  466. Chris Robinson
  467. Joan Rock
  468. Elenore Rockey
  469. Doreen Parker Rogers
  470. Mary Evelyn Rogers ff
  471. Sidonie “Sid” Rogers
  472. Felice Rolfe (Maxam)
  473. Su Rosen
  474. Betty Rosenblum
  475. Marilyn Ross
  476. Dori Rothman
  477. Agnes Rundle
  478. Joanna Russ
  479. Florence Russell
  480. Marion Ryan
  481. Virginia "Ginny" Saari
  482. Margaret St. Clair ff
  483. Alice Sander
  484. Dorothy Sanford
  485. Peggy Rae Sapienza (McKnight / Pavlat)
  486. Josephine Saxton
  487. Helena Schaumburger
  488. Barbara Schmidt
  489. Virginia Schultheis
  490. Gretchen Schwenn (Boggs)
  491. Phyllis Scott
  492. Harriet Segman
  493. Daphne Sewall
  494. Lila Shaffer
  495. Sandy Shapiro
  496. Marie-Louise Share (Shoemaker)
  497. Juanita Sharp
  498. Noreen Shaw (Falasca)
  499. Sadie Shaw (Sarah)
  500. Monna Sheller
  501. Nancy Sherry
  502. Wilmar H. Shiras
  503. Ina Shorrock
  504. Maril Shrewsbury
  505. Nancy Shriner
  506. Thelma Shull
  507. Bella Siegel (Lifshitz)
  508. Barbara Silverberg (Brown)
  509. Rosemary G. Simmons
  510. Pat Sims (Oswalt)
  511. Lee Sirat
  512. Rosalie Sisson
  513. Margaret Skiffington ff
  514. Joan Skirvin
  515. Joyce Slater
  516. Ricky Slavin (Rhoda Katerinsky)
  517. Riva “The Bat” Smiley
  518. Clarrissa Smith (Honey Wilcox) ff
  519. Cindy Smith
  520. Evelyn E. Smith
  521. Jeannie Smith (Jeanne Craig MacDougall) ff
  522. Mary Southworth (Young)
  523. Ruth Stage
  524. Sue Stanley
  525. Rose Stark
  526. Barbara Steedman
  527. Genevieve K. Stephens
  528. Inga Stephens (Pratt / Clark)
  529. Anne Steul
  530. Francis Stevens (Gertrude Mabel Barrows Bennett)
  531. Lyn Stier
  532. Julia Stone
  533. Leslie F. Stone ff
  534. Joni Stopa (“Kitty” Doyle / Cornell)
  535. Mae Strelkov
  536. Evelyn Stroud
  537. Betty Sullivan
  538. Kathleen Swearingen
  539. Frances Swisher ff
  540. Frances Alberti Sykora (Quarterman) ff
  541. Frances Helen Sykora (Racic) ff
  542. Chrystal Tackett (Allen)
  543. Frances Tanner
  544. Millie Taurasi ff
  545. Beatrice Taylor
  546. Joan Teagle
  547. Joan Temple
  548. Diane Tenglin
  549. Diane Terwilleger
  550. Zylpha Thailing
  551. Jeanette Marie Thomas
  552. Maggie Thompson (Margaret Curtis)
  553. Dorothy Tomkins
  554. Suzanne Tompkins (“Suzle”)
  555. Lee Anne Tremper (Lavell)
  556. Jan Trenholm
  557. Verna Smith Trestrail ff
  558. Bjo Trimble (Betty JoAnne Conway / McCarthy / Wells)
  559. Irene Tubb
  560. Marilyn Tulley
  561. Hellen Tullis (Nagy)
  562. Leslie Turek
  563. Eleanor “Ellie” Turner
  564. Mary Ellen Tyrrell
  565. Marie Uney
  566. Beatrice Unger (Gilsenberg) ff
  567. Helen M. Urban
  568. Sophia van Doorn
  569. Helen Vasquez
  570. Bea Venable
  571. Marilyn "Lyn" Venable
  572. Catherine Verrastro
  573. Suzanne “Suzy” Vick
  574. Jessie Walker
  575. Simone Walsh (Restall)
  576. Mary Helen Washington
  577. Ardis Waters
  578. Beryl Watkins
  579. Doreen Webbert
  580. Jane Wells (Janie Ely)
  581. Margaret Wells (Hughes)
  582. Elma Wentz (Miller / LeCron)
  583. Helen Wesson (Vivarttas)
  584. Mari Beth Wheeler
  585. Betty White
  586. Peggy White
  587. Phyllis White (Price)
  588. Robin Postal White
  589. Sylvia Dees White
  590. Thelma "Pat" White
  591. Evelyn Adams Whyte
  592. Kate Wilhelm
  593. Allison Williams (Phillips)
  594. Cecile Williamson
  595. Madeleine Willis
  596. Genie Willmorth
  597. Gabrielle Wilson (Cummings)
  598. Liz Wilson
  599. Mary Wilson
  600. Helen Winick
  601. Mari Wolf (Graham)
  602. Eva Wolff
  603. Elsie Wollheim
  604. Honey Wood (Graham)
  605. JoAnn Wood (Schmidt)
  606. Natalie H. Wooley
  607. Barbara Wrede
  608. Marjorie Z. Wright ff
  609. Belle Wyman ff
  610. Geneva Wyman
  611. Rose Wyn
  612. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
  613. Cathie Youden
  614. Donna Young
  615. Jean Young
  616. Mabel Young (Mae Sims)

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