Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 - August 22, 1965) was the first airline stewardess. Born in Cresco, Iowa, Church became a nurse and an early female pilot. Boeing Air Transit (the predecessor to United Airlines) wouldn't hire her as a pilot, but did take her suggestion to hire nurses as stewardesses in order to calm passengers' fears; Church was hired in 1930 as head stewardess and put in charge of hiring the others. During World War II Church flew for the Army Nurse Corps, earning an Air Medal. She moved to Terre Haute, Indiana, where she became director of nursing at Union Hospital. In 1964, she married Leonard Briggs Marshall, president of the Terre Haute First National Bank, but died when she accidentally fell from a horse while riding on August 22, 1965. The airport in Cresco is named Ellen Church Field in her honor. Cresco is a city located in Howard County, Iowa. ... Various United Airlines tails United Airlines, the primary subsidiary of the UAL Corporation, is a major airline of the United States headquartered in unincorporated Elk Grove Township, Illinois, near Chicagos OHare International Airport, the airlines largest traffic hub. ... This article is becoming very long. ... Terre Haute is a city located in Vigo County, Indiana. ...
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Modern practitioners of theomatics (using a person's name to reference Bible verses) have translated Church's name in a way that connects her to the "Whore of Babylon" in Revelations - see this site, for instance. Theomatics is a numerological study of the Greek and Hebrew text of the Christian Bible, based upon gematria and isopsephy, that its proponents assert demonstrates the direct intervention of God in the writing of Christian scripture. ... The Whore of Babylon rides the seven-headed Beast. ... Visions of John the Evangelist, as depicted in the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry. ...
External links
PBS website on aviation innovators
Iowa Public TV/Iowa Pathways article on Ellen Church
As a young nurse in San Francisco, Miss Church approached officials of Boeing Air Transport, a parent company of United, and proposed that stewardesses be added to flight crews.
Born September 22, 1904, on a farm near Cresco, Iowa, EllenChurch, combined imagination, persistence, and her own personal warmth to meet life's challenges along the way.
Ellen was a nursing director at Terre Haute Union Hospital and later a hospital administrator.
Ellen was an earnest missionary worker, seeking to win her youthful friends and doing her part in heralding the Advent message.
Ellen White's diaries for the late 1850s reveal that not all her time was devoted to writing and public work.
An important vision was given to Ellen White on April 1, 1874, while in the West, at which time there was opened up to her the marvelous way in which the denomination's work was to broaden and develop not only in the western States but overseas.
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