Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess

Ellen Church (September 22, 1904 - August 22, 1965) was the first female flight attendant.

Church was born in Cresco, Iowa. After graduating from Cresco High School, Church studied nursing and worked in a San Francisco hospital.[2] She was a pilot and a registered nurse.

Church became the first stewardess to fly (though not the first flight attendant, as German Heinrich Kubis had preceded her in 1912).

On May 15, 1930, she embarked on a Boeing 80A for a 20-hour flight from Oakland/San Francisco to Chicago with 13 stops and 14 passengers.[4] According to one source, the pilot was another aviation pioneer, Elrey Borge Jeppesen.

Source: WIKIPEDIA