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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nStars & Stripes<\/a> reports the sad news that Dawn Seymour has passed at the tender age of 100 years.<\/p>\n Seymour was one of the 1,102 women who served as a WASP during World War II and among a small number of Women’s Airforce Service Pilots to complete training on the four-engine B-17 bomber. Seymour and her fellow WASPs flew bombers and other warplanes in the U.S. to free up male pilots for combat service overseas.<\/p>\n “There were two motivations of the WASPs,” Seymour told the Daily Messenger in 2015 from her home above Canandaigua Lake. “To serve our country and to help win the war.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ms. Seymour was from my neck of the woods in the Finger Lakes area of New York, and she’s been featured in several venues<\/a> related to her war-time service as she worked tirelessly to remember those women who served with her. According to S&S, she was honored just last week at the National Warplane Museum air show in Geneseo, NY.<\/p>\n A memorial service to celebrate her life will be held Monday, July 24, at 4:30 p.m. at Third Presbyterian Church, corner of Meigs St. & East Ave., Rochester. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the National WASP WWII Museum, P.O. Box 456, Sweetwater, TX 79556. Arrangements are by Johnson-Kennedy Funeral Home, Inc., Canandaigua. Condolences may be offered at www.johnsonkennedy.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"