🚨Information: Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” has died at 100.
In the summer of 1944, Gibson was just 18 when she left Minnesota and traveled by Greyhound bus to Seattle. There, she became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards, helping construct destroyers for the Allied war effort.
She worked the swing shift six days a week in the bitter waterfront cold, wearing flannel pajamas and wool long underwear beneath her heavy protective gear.
Gibson later moved to Juneau, Alaska, where she joined the Army Transportation Corps. She helped prepare manifests and loading plans for ships carrying supplies to the Pacific theater.
Gibson was among more than six million American women who entered home-front jobs during World War II. Known collectively as the Rosies, they built aircraft, ships, weapons and other equipment while millions of men served overseas.
In 2024, the Rosies were collectively awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for their contributions during the war.
Gibson continued sharing their history well into her final years, volunteering at Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park and encouraging young women to pursue their ambitions.
Just days before her death on July 29, 2026, the park honored her with a Wall of Honor banner bearing her name and portrait.
From welding destroyers to earning a doctorate and learning to fly, Jeanne Gibson spent a century proving that women belonged wherever their ambitions could take them.
Rest peacefully 🕊
🚨Missing Person Alert! 📍 Seattle, WA🚨
The @SeattlePD is missing its Police Chief.
If you have seen him, please notify the @MayorofSeattle.
He’s known to frequent Chicago, because he doesn’t actually live in Seattle.