WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots

 

ENLARGED

Frances Rohrer Sargent

WASP - Women Airforce Service Pilots

Some time ago I sent some information about my Mother In Law, Francis R. Sargent that you posted. She was a WASP, class 42-W4, assigned to Camp Davis Army Air Field. She was also an instrument instructor and Professor of Aviation at Miami Dade Community College (ret).

Fran passed away Friday December 27, 2013. She was 93. 

CELESTIAL FLIGHT: 

She is not dead --
But only flying higher,
Higher than she's flown before,
And earthlly limitations
Will hinder her no more.

There is no service ceiling.
Or any fuel range,
And there is no anoxia,
Or need for engine change. 

Thank God that now her flight can be
To heights her eyes had scanned,
Where she can race with comets,
And buzz the rainbow's span. 

For she is universal
Like courage, love and hope,
And all free, sweet emotions
Of vast and godly scope.
 
And understand a pilot's Fate
Is not the thing she fears,
But rather sadness left behind,
Your heartbreak and your tears.
 
So all you loved ones, dry your eyes,
Yes, it is wrong that you should grieve
For she would love your courage more,
And she would want you to believe
She is not dead. 

For you should have known
That she is flying higher,
Higher than she's ever flown.
 
by Elizabeth MacKethan Magid, WASP 44-W-2
copyright 1979

Terry

Fla.