ANITA "NETA" SNOOK 1896-1991 AKA Neta Snook Southern

 

Neta Snook, one of Ames' first female pilots, used to take passengers for a spin over Ames from her "airport," a field where Hilton Coliseum would stand. Snook left Ames to become a commercial pilot in California. In 1974 she wrote a book, I Taught Amelia To Fly. Died at age 95 on March 23, 1991, Neta Snook Southern. (See also: 38.190B.1-2) Text and Photo Courtesy of the Farwell T. Brown Photographic Archive Ames Public Library Information Services 515 Douglas Avenue Ames, IA 50010-6215 (515) 239-5656

 

ONLINE RESOURCES      If you search for "Neta Snook", using the Google search engine, (10-22-11), you will find about 7,680 links. A good place to start is the following.

Neta Snook      This page on the Women in Aviation Resource Center offers the most comprehensive online biography of her life and career I have found. It is an excerpt from: Ladybirds II - The Continuing Story of American Women in Aviation, by Henry M. Holden and Captain Lori Griffith (1994) Publisher: Black Hawk Publishing Co. You can access it by clicking on the title.

 

Neta Snook Southern died at 95 years of age in 1991   Editor's Note: If you have any more information on this Early Flier, please contact me. E-mail to Ralph Cooper   Back