From the April 23, 2015, USA Today "Model for Norman Rockwell's Rosie the Riveter painting dies" by Melanie Eversley.
Mary Doyle Keefe, 92, the overall clad, sandwich eating gal with a rivet gun on her lap featured in the May 1943 Saturday Evening Post cover, is no longer doing her thing for the war effort.
She grew up in Vermont and was a friend of Rockwell who posed twice for the painting because she was wearing a white blouse in the first effort which was deemed inappropriate for the subject.
This was not the same woman as the one who was shown flexing her muscles in the poster that was so often seen back then and even today.
--GreGen
The USS North Carolina (BB-55) My all-time favorite warship. As an elementary school student in North Carolina, I donated nickels and dimes to save this ship back in the early sixties.
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