| Charlotte McFall Mallon is a friend as a result of my interviewing her for the book: NO TIME FOR FEAR, VOICES OF AMERICAN MILITARY NURSES IN WORLD WAR II. Her story is on page 70, and there are several photos. She is still pretty agile and I see her occasionally at her home in Sun City, AZ.
She was one of the founders of the WWIIFNA when she lived in New Jersey as a young housewife and mother. There were other flight nurses who wanted to keep in touch and that was the beginning. The experiences they had shared were not like any other veterans, and the bond has been there ever since.
Obituary
Charlotte Louise (McFall) Mallon, age 104, of Sun City, died at home August 29, 2021.
Charlotte was born on May 14, 1917 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, the eldest of three daughters of Charles William McFall and Lila Mae Colwell.
When she was six, they moved to a farm in Kent County, Michigan, where she graduated in 1934 from Byron Center High School, and in 1938 from Blodgett Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
While working as a nurse in Detroit, she resigned December 7, 1941 to enter the Army Nurse Corps, February 2,1942. She served in the Pacific Theater until her separation of service February 1, 1946. She was awarded the Asiatic Pacific Service Medal and the Air Transport Command Presidential Unit Citation.
She married Edward J. Mallon of New York City and officer in the United States Merchant Marine in Mobile, Alabama, July 14, 1946. They settled in Edison, New Jersey and raised their five sons. After Captain Mallon's death in February, 1984, Charlotte moved to Washington State, then to Sun City, Arizona in 1986, where she was residing at the time of her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and two sisters. She is survived by her sons Michael (Christine) of Washington State, John of Virginia, Kevin of California, Edward (Joan) of Colorado, and Timothy of California, two grandchildren and their spouses, three great-grandchildren and seven nieces and nephews.
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