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Ruth Osgood was one of the first female air traffic controllers at Midway Airport. (March 28, 2012)
Ruth Osgood got her private pilot?s license while in college, and she signed up for the Women?s Airforce Service Pilots in 1944, only to see the program canceled weeks after she joined.
She then found work as one of the first female air traffic controllers at Chicago Municipal Airport, which later became Midway. Later in life, she was active in civil rights andwomen?s health issues.
?She was fearless in many ways,? said her daughter, Amy Woodbury. ?She had her passions and she pursued them.?
Mrs. Osgood, 87, the former head administrator of the now-shuttered Concord West Medical Center in Westmont, died of complications from a heart attack on Thursday, March 22, at Westminster Place retirement community in Evanston.
Read more on? chicagotribune.com.
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