Entries by Amee Sevrie

Nellie Zabel Willhite – First Deaf Woman Pilot

February 10, 2020 in /by

by Clayton Shell | November 16, 2017 Nellie Zabel Willhite was the woman that I had found in my research on “Deaf people in History.” Born November 22, 1892, in Box Elder, South Dakota, she became the first woman to fly in South Dakota, and the first deaf woman pilot. She was not born deaf, […]