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Rufus Home, Exterior, Ann Arbor Hills, October 1938 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Rufus Home, Exterior, Ann Arbor Hills, October 1938 image
Year:
1938
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, October 22, 1938
Caption:
Prof. and Mrs. W. C. Rufus have moved into their new residence on Arlington Blvd. in Ann Arbor Hills, a view of which is shown here.

Ann Arbor's "flying grandmother," CAP pilot Maude S. Rufus, Flies War Production Man to Grand Rapids, June 1943 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Ann Arbor's "flying grandmother," CAP pilot Maude S. Rufus, Flies War Production Man to Grand Rapids, June 1943 image
Year:
1943
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, June 29, 1943
Caption:
CAP COURIER SERVICE INAUGURATED: The Ann Arbor Civil Air Patrol inaugurated its war-time courier service yesterday afternoon when an official of an Ann Arbor plant was flown to Grand Rapids on a war business trip. Mrs. W. Carl Rufus, Ann Arbor's "flying grandmother," was chosen to pilot the first courier flight. She is shown conferring with her passenger, Jay H. Leason, a financial executive of International Industries, Inc., on details of the flight before leaving the Ann Arbor municipal airport in her plane. Mrs. Rufus returned to Ann Arbor alone, Mrs. Leason being scheduled to go on to Chicago from Grand Rapids. The CAP maintains an office at the airport through which arrangements for courier flights can be made in planes owned and operated by CAP members.

Carl Rufus Greets His Wife Maude On Her Arrival Home - June 18, 1941 Photographer: Eck Stanger

Carl Rufus Greets His Wife Maude On Her Arrival Home - June 18, 1941 image
Year:
1941
Published In:
Ann Arbor News, January 1, 1942
Caption:
FLYING GRANDMOTHER ENDS LONG TRIP: Mrs. W. Carl Rufus, Ann Arbor's "flying grandmother," demonstrated in 1941 that a person is only as old as he or she feels. At the age of 60, Mrs. Rufus piloted her own plane on a leisurely solo flight to the West Coast and return. Her husband, Prof. Rufus, is shown greeting her on her arrival home June 18.