A little Quaker lady came to town about a year ago, and a lot of folks have changed their minds about Quakers in general and aviators in particular......Wife of Carl W. Test, plant engineer of the local gypsum company, Mrs. Sallie Test came to West Texas on a second honeymoon--husband Carl had just arrived home from the war after 35 months duty as an officer with the 2nd Armored division.
Test, like his wife, Sallie, is of the Quaker faith...Mrs. Test is a licensed pilot, and flew with a volunteer civil patrol group during the war years, serving as adjutant of her group...
Mrs. Test has two major community activities...leader of Wing Flight, a senior Girl Scout organization, and she is vice-president of the local Jaycee-ette organization. She has served as a substitute in the school systems, here.
Mrs. Test was born Sallie Puckett, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Puckett, in Indiana. Several great-grandfathers back, on the paternal side, four Puckett brothers came to American from Wales, about the middle 1700's.
Mrs. Test's father, 79, living in retirement in Indiana...The Pucketts are members of the Friends, the progressive branch of the Quaker church. Mr. Test and his family were members of the original Quaker church, in Hicksites. Recently, the two branches merged...and the Quaker church is now progressive.
Mrs. Test is a 1934 graduate of Iowa State college, with a B.S. Degree as a landscape architect. She was married to Test in December 1933, following his graduation from Iowa State in 1933, withy a B.S. Degree in industrial economics. Prior to entering Iowa State, Test had graduated from Westtown prep school in Pennsylvania, a famous Quaker institution. His birth place is the same as that of former President Herbert Hoover--West Branch, Iowa.
Following their marriage, the Test moved to Ft. Dodge, Iowa, where Test first became associated with the gypsum industry. While there, Mrs. Test worked first with the Iowa State planning board, second with the State Highway commission. When Test was transferred to the Gypsum plant at Port Clinton, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie, Mrs. Test did secretarial work in the offices there. Then came the war, and Test, an officer in the army reserves, was called to active duty. He served as captain in the Second Armored Division in Africa, Sicily, Normandy, and Berlin. He acquired seven campaign ribbons, the Bronze Star, with cluster, two arrowheads, Presidential citation ribbon, and French and Belgium unit decorations. He is now a Major in the Army Artillery Reserves.
When Test went away to war, Mrs. Test went to work in a war plant near their home in Ohio. Her spare time was spent with the volunteer Civil Air Patrol Group, stationed at nearby Sandusky, Ohio..
This article was copied by Genevieve Test Peterson when she was in Hamlin (West Texas) in the mid-1940's. The newspaper unknown.
(All of above provided by Glenn Test in e-mail message dated 8/18/96)