Extracted from the Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
Tuesday, August 20, 1996

JOHNNIE LOUISE HINES

Johnnie Louise Hines, 83, of Aurora died Aug. 15. Family memorial services will be Sunday, Aug. 25, with inurnment in Oak Grove, Ark.

Mrs. Hines was born in Leland, Miss., on Aug. 21, 1912. She married Ray O. Hines, 1928. She retired as the first female first-class shipfitter and welder from Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard in 1974, and served as a Rosie the Riveter during World War II.

Survivors include her daughters Hazel Bodein of California, Elizabeth Fonseca of Aurora; six grandchildren; a great-grandson.