Rout, Frances Deloise Paige

Women's Army Corps

August 27, 1943

January 23, 1946

Private First Class

Frances D. Paige was born in Lexington, KY, the daughter of Mary Smith and Harry Paige. In 1930 Frances, her father, and her siblings were all living with her aunt when the 1930 U.S. Census was completed. In 1941 it was noted in the "Colored Notes" of the local newspaper that Frances was seriously ill. She recuperated and in 1943, it was announced that Frances Paige had been accepted into the Army and would be doing her basic training at Fort Des Moines, IA.

Frances had enlisted in the Army in Cincinnati, OH, according to her record in the National Archives, Access to Archival Databases. In 1944, she and her brother were home on furlough. Two years later and not too long after her military service, Frances Paige married Leslie B. Rout. The couple lived in Chicago where Frances died in 1956. Her funeral services were held in Lexington, and she is buried in Greenwood Cemetery.

Sources: Kentucky Birth Index in Ancestry; California Divorce Index in Ancestry; "Colored Notes: Frances Deloise Paige," The Lexington Leader, 5/2/1941, p. 16; "As we go marching on: Miss Frances Paige," The Lexington Herald, 4/9/1943, p. 24; "Colored Notes," The Lexington Herald, 6/8/1944, p. 9; "Colored Notes," The Lexington Herald, 3/9/1946, p. 6; "Colored Notes: Services for Mrs. Frances Paige Rout," The Lexington Leader, 4/30/1956, p. 19; "Colored Notes: Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Paige Rout," The Lexington Leader, 4/30/1956, p. 19; and U.S. Headstone Application or Marker in Ancestry.

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