Evelyn G. Sharp

(1919-1944) lived at Ord, Valley County. Aviator, youngest woman to gain a commercial pilot’s license in 1938, taught more than 350 men and women to fly, logged 3,000 hours of flight time, was among only 23 women chosen in October 1942 by the Army Air Corps to become member of the Women Air Force Service Pilot’s Women Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron; the Ord airport named after her. Consult Ord Quiz obituary, April 6, 1944, p. 1 and Omaha World Herald, March 27, 1996, p. 20 and Diane A. Bartels, Sharpie: The Life Story of Evelyn Sharp, Nebraska’s Aviatrix (Dageforde, 1996) and A History of Women in the United States: State by State Reference, Vol 2 (Grolier Academic Reference, 2004) 376.

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