was born on February 27, 1926 in Blythe Township to Stanley (1885-1937) and Margaret (Lapinsky) Christian (1903-1996). Geroge Christian (1929-1949) was killed in an airplane crash on a routine training flight in 1949. Because the factory floor was highly compartmentalized, the workforce never saw a finished product; they worked only on isolated pieces. Throughout the war, workers were reminded never to disclose what was done behind the factory walls. Photographs of her riding a camel in Israel, standing wind-blown atop the Great Wall of China, and posing before St.