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Army social season links Rockford women to Fort Sam Houston
Mrs. Ferguson F. Wormwood of Rockford NL spends winter in San Antonio with husband in the Rockford Battery Illinois National Guard stationed at Camp Wilson. Mrs. Wormwood is noted as a prominent city figure. Mrs. Frederick C. Hubbell and family relocate from New York to make San Antonio home. Miss Gertrude Negley and Miss Margaret Graham debut in society. An artistic entertainment charity event is planned for December 12 at the Majestic under Fort Sam Houston Red Cross. The piece celebrates Army wives adapting to postings from Manila to Washington and Fort Sam Houston, calling San Antonio the mother in law of the army and listing many military-family marriages connected to the city.
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Ferguson F. Wormwood
Rockford, NL
San Antonio
Wormwood
Rockford Battery
Illinois National Guard
Camp Wilson
Frederick C. Hubbell
New York
Majestic
Fort Sam Houston
Ed Cross Society
Sarvay
Manila
Governors
Island
N. Y
Washington Barracks
Washington, D. C
Wyoming
Western States
Washington
Army
Claude Coleman
John
Winchester Kelso
Elizabeth Sullivan
John L. Clem
Margaret Haile
Archibald Commiskey
Ethel Lowe
John White Craig
Rock Island Arsenal
Illinois
Mattie Mae Lowe
Walter Moore
Laredo
Mabelle Lowe
William M. Grimes