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‘Rosie the Riveter’ Lucille MacDonald dies at age 98 in Hawaii

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Wyatt Olson

Stars and Stripes • November 20, 2024

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Lucille MacDonald poses in her work coveralls in this undated photo taken during World War II while she worked as a shipyard welder in Georgia. (Dodo Dunaj)

FORT SHAFTER, Hawaii — Lucille “Cille” MacDonald, who this spring was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for “Rosie the Riveter” work during World War II, died Friday in Valley Island, Maui. She was 98.

MacDonald, a longtime Maui resident who narrowly escaped the Lahaina wildfire last year, was a shipyard welder during the war, according to Pacific Historic Parks, which announced her death in a news release Monday.