Mary Wallace “Wally” Funk
Professional Aviator
One of the Mercury 13
Oldest Woman to Fly in Space
Mary Wallace Funk, who was called Wally from the time she was a child, became fascinated with airplanes. When she was one year old, her parents took her to an airport, and she remembers going up to the Douglas DC-3 airplane and trying to turn the nut on the wheel. By the time she was seven, she built model airplanes. At nine she had her first flying lesson.
She learned to hunt, fish, ca ...
Jaraji (tah RAH he) Penda Henson founded Boris Lawrence Henson Foundation because she, her son, and her father, a Vietnam veteran, did not get therapy that could relieve their mental healt ...
June Carter Cash
Country Music Singer
Country Music Hall of Fame
I spent several days in Nashville recently and enjoyed the entire visit, so I thought it appropriate to feature someone from that ...
