W6EK 1932 Pomona, California

Miss Flora Louise Card, daughter of Morton B. Card and Lillie Dale Horst, was born November 24, 1914 in San Diego County, California. In the 1934 Los Angeles and vicinity directory her occupation is "radio operator."

A.R.R.S. was the Army Amateur Radio Service. It was organized after World War I by the U.S. Army Signal Corps with the assistance from the American Radio Relay League. Call signs, such as WLV and WLVK, were issued to amateur radio members of A.R.R.S. by the Signal Corps.

Flora was living in Oregon before 1951. Flora remarried to Alois H. Rohling (1916-1988). Flora Rohling was living in Renton, Washington in 1959 and died there in 1996.

(Silent Key, 1914-1996)

Flora rests at Washington Memorial Park, King County, Washington State

 

In 1960 W6EK belonged to Robert J. Miller.

The callsign W6EK is now owned by The Sierra Foothills Amateur Radio Club of Auburn, California.

QSL from the estate of W6BER / K6BWY
Info courtesy of W5KNE
February 1937 ARRL article used with permission of ARRL
Rohling info & photo courtesy of W8SU