A memorial service for Hazel Marjorie Hohn, 79, a Carson City-Reno area resident for the past 43 years, will be at 11 a.m. Jan. 26 at the Fountainhead Four-Square Church, south of in Carson City.
Mrs. Hohn died Jan. 15, 2002, in Reno. She was born Oct. 13, 1922, in Brooklyn, N.Y.
She moved to Reno in 1959.
Mrs. Hohn was selected as one of 1,073 women to serve as a Women Airforce Service Pilot in March 1943. She was very involved in getting the GI Bill Improvement Act of 1977 passed. This bill recognized the WASP military service so they might receive veterans rights.
Among her survivors are her sons Jim Kulik of Portland, Ore. and John Kulik of Reno; daughters Carol Kuhn and Susan Hunt, both of Carson City and grandchildren Rachel and Christopher Kuhn and Beau and Kaira Stevens.
Memorial contributions may be made to Women's Memorial, Dept. 560, Washington, DC 20042-0560 in her name.
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