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Women veterans from area to take Honor Flight to Washington BY KATHRYN ROSS
WELLSVILLE — In March a call went out for women veterans to join the first Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight for women who served in the U.S. military. Just as they did when they were in their teens, three Allegany County women answered the call. They were set to leave Oct. 10 to spend a weekend in Washington, D.C., visiting historic sites dedicated to the nation’s founders and veterans with fellow women who served. It was the first Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight exclusively for women veterans. Although a few women veterans have participated in Honor Flights from Western New York before, they have been heavily outnumbered by men on the flights. “This is the first all-women flight out of Buffalo,” said Kathie Timpano of Wellsville, who attended an orientation for the women’s flight recently. Timpano as well as Barbara Gordon, also from Wellsville, were both on the Honor Flight, and joined by Kay Klein of Angelica. They each served in different eras and in different branches of the military — ranging from
Barbara Gordon in the Air Force.
Kathie Timpano in the Navy.
the Cold War 1950s to the 19-year-long United States involvement in the Vietnam War. At 88, Gordon is the oldest of the trio. She served in the Air Force from 1955 to 1958, enlisting a day after her 18th birthday while living near Schenectady. After basic training at Lackland Air Force base in Texas, she was a cryp-
Photos by Kathryn Ross Barb Gordon (left) and Kathie Timpano (center) are shown with Honor Flight guardian JoAnn White on Thursday as they prepared for thisd weekend’s Buffalo-Niagara Honor Flight for women veterans.
tologist in the Pentagon, deciphering coded, high-security messages during the Cold War. But she wanted to fly. As a girl traveling
Kay Klein, who served in the Air Force, is taking part in the Honor Flight for women veterans.
around the country with her parents and brothers, she was enamored of the women pilots during World War II, the WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots) who ferried planes, flew non-combat missions and sometimes towed targets the male pilots shot at. However, when she joined the AF, flying was not an option for women. “What I remember most was that I was equal to the men I worked with,” she recalled. “I was paid the same and I was independent and free and living in Washington.” Gordon was ranked as airman first class and worked in the sub-base-
ment of the Pentagon, and in the event of a nuclear attack (seemingly a real threat at the time) she said she was told to “bend over and kiss her tail feathers goodbye” because there was little chance of surviving or escaping from the sub-basement. Today, Gordon, who teaches Getting Stronger Classes, credits her time in the military for her energy, good health and attitude. She believes all youth should serve a mandatory stint in the armed services to teach them discipline and commitment. Timpano, nearly 80, she served in the Navy, although she can’t swim, from 1963 to 1966
as a medical corpsman, attaining the rate of hospital corpsman, third class. She recalled that she was in bootcamp in New Jersey when the country learned of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. “We didn’t know what was going to happen to us,” she said. Timpano enlisted in the Navy following her high school graduation because she knew her parents couldn’t afford to send her to college. She received medical training and served as a medical corpsman at St. Alban’s Naval Hospital on Long Island, where she worked in nuclear medicine, female medicine and thoracic medicine. After moving to Wellsville she worked at Kerton’s Florists. Today she does three shifts Women Veterans continued on PAGE 2
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