Neta Snook Southern in retirement
NASA photo
Neta Snook Southern at age 84 emerges from
the Flight Simulator
for Advanced Aircraft at the NASA's Ames Research
Center.
Neta Snook Southern in retirement
NASA photo
Neta Snook Southern at age 84 emerges from
the Flight Simulator
for Advanced Aircraft at the NASA's Ames Research
Center.
Neta Snook gave up flying at the time of her marriage to William Southern in 1921 and the subsequent birth of her son, William Curtiss Southern. A man offered me a house and lot in Manhattan Beach plus a $500 Liberty bond for my old Canuck, with the provision that I teach him to fly. In August of 1922 I stepped out of my plane and have never been in one since. The family remained in California where Neta raised miniature horses, among other things, at her ranch. Neta Snook Southern died on March 23, 1991 at the age of 95. One year later she was inducted into the Iowa Aviation Hall of Fame. Neta's leather flight suit, some personal items and a small replica Canuck with "Miss Neta Snook" painted on the sides were donataed to the Omniplex Air and Space Museum in Oklahoma City.
Neta's autobiography was published by Vantage Press in 1974.
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Josie
36 inch tall rag doll
Neta Snook grew up in Mount Carroll, Illinois, where the wife of their family doctor, Josephina Greeley, took an interest in her. Josephina made Neta this charming doll. When the Snooks moved to Ames in 1913, Josephina suggested that they look up her sister-in-law, Mary Greeley, the wife of her husband’s brother, Wallace. Mrs. Snook and her two daughters, Neta and Vivian, dutifully called upon Mary at the mansion at 5th and Douglas (now Adams Funeral Home).
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Neta's toy washboard