who was the real rosie the riveter who recently passed?
Now, The New York Times reports the woman who inspired the Rosie the Riveter poster, a California waitress named Naomi Parker Fraley, has died. Fraley passed away on Saturday at 96 in Longview, Wash., her daughter-in-law, Marnie Blankenship told The Times. Local television station KATU also reported on her death. The real Rosie behind J. Howard Miller's iconic wartime poster, commissioned by the Westinghouse Company's War Production Coordinating Committee, was only recently discovered. It's believed Miller based the We Can Do It poster on a 1942 newspaper photograph of a female war worker.