Person Sheet


Name Gene Slack
Birth 27 Jul 1915
Death 24 Nov 1996
Burial Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge, Florida
Spouses
1 Robert Harold Scharlau
Birth 21 Jul 1920
Death 29 Jan 2003
Burial Florida Memorial Gardens, Rockledge, Florida
Father Frederick J. Scharlau (1886-1974)
Mother Corabell Violet Frasier (1889-1985)
Children Katherine
Lori
Joseph
Nedra
Notes for Gene Slack
From Gene's book of poetry, "White Marigolds":
Gene Slack Scharlau has been a radio personality in Hawaii, a radio and television producer and writer for the U.S. Air Force, a first lieutenant in the USAF and the Civil Air Patrol in Tennessee, a command pilot in the Women Air Service Pilots during World War II, a co-pilot (during the war) on B-24s and B-17s, an aviation writer and editor for several Tennessee newspapers and the Tennessee Bureau of Aeronautics, not to mention a wife, mother, foster mother and grandmother. She also holds a commercial pilot's license. Over the years, she has published numerous articles in aviation magazines, women's magazines and trade journals. Her poetry has appeared in the University of Virginia Poetry Journal, Flying Magazine, Tennessee Women and the Paradise of the Pacific Magazine. Her latest publication was in 1981, a short biography of Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie.

Graduate of fourth Women's Flying Training Detachment, which graduated 112 pilots on August 7, 1943. Rank of 1st Lieutenant, USAFR. (www.wpafb.ap.mil/museum/history/wasp/wasp23.htm)
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