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Amelia Earhart Search Forum => General discussion => Topic started by: Richard Lyon Metzger on October 01, 2014, 03:35:49 PM

Title: Geraldine Mock, "the flying housewife", has died at 88
Post by: Richard Lyon Metzger on October 01, 2014, 03:35:49 PM

Geraldine "Jerrie" Mock, the first woman to fly solo around the world, has died at the age of 88, a family friend said on Wednesday.

Mock, a Newark, Ohio, native known as "the flying housewife," died in her Florida home on Tuesday, said the friend, Mary Kelley.

Mock was 38 on March 19, 1964, when she took off from Columbus, Ohio, in a 1953 Cessna 180 single-engine monoplane named the "Spirit of Columbus," according to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum Archives.

Twenty-nine days and 23,103 miles (37,180 km) later, the five-foot (1.5-metre), 100-pound (45-kg) mother of three landed safely back in Columbus, 27 years after Amelia Earhart's much more famous - albeit unsuccessful - attempt to circle the globe.

Title: Re: Geraldine Mock, "the flying housewife", has died at 88
Post by: Tim Gard on October 01, 2014, 04:13:26 PM

 RIP Jerrie. (http://www.newarkadvocate.com/story/news/local/2014/10/01/jerrie-mock-newark-born-pioneer-pilot-dies/16524941/)

Title: Re: Geraldine Mock, "the flying housewife", has died at 88
Post by: Ric Gillespie on October 01, 2014, 04:50:34 PM

Her son was my roommate in Basic Training at Ft. Dix, NJ in 1970. Great guy and very proud of his mother. I think his first name was Jerry just like his Mom but I'm not sure.  In Basic everyone was known by their last name because it was printed on your fatigues. If you had a nickname it was some derivation of your last name.  I was "Gill." (Later, that changed to "Sir.")

Title: Re: Geraldine Mock, "the flying housewife", has died at 88
Post by: Monty Fowler on October 02, 2014, 12:31:21 PM

Another person who definitely had The Right Stuff. Godspeed, Jerrie.

LTM,
Monty Fowler, TIGHAR No. 2189 ECSP