Lyons, Jean Marie (Granfield), 1931-2013
Dates
- Existence: 1931 February 8 - 2013 October 13
Biographical Note
Jean Marie (Granfield) Lyons was a flight attendant in the early 1950s.
Jean Marie Granfield was born February 8, 1931 in New London, Connecticut to John and Ida Granfield in 1932. After graduating from high school in 1950, Granfield was working for Col. Michael D. Petrosky of the Groton Flying Service at the Groton airport as his secretary when he took her for a ride in an airplane. That is when Granfield decided that she wanted to be a stewardess.
Granfield applied to work for Northeast Airlines stationed out of Boston, Massachusetts in 1951 and was hired. Her training took place in Boston. On her first flight, she flew to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Northeast Airlines flew DC-3’s at the time and their routes took her to stops throughout New England. She worked for the airline until 1953 when she was married and moved to the Seattle, Washington area to be with her husband, Herbert Gordon Lyons, who was in the Coast Guard.
Jean Marie (Granfield) Lyons died October 13, 2013 in Issaquah, Washington and is buried at Tahoma National Cemetery.
Source:
Biographical note based on donor information and records on Ancestry.com.