Born in 1892 in New Jersey.
Grace Derby Banker was the recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal for her military service with the US Army Signal Corps during WWI. After the war, she married Eugene H Paddock and settled in NY. They were the parents of three sons and a daughter, born between 1923 and 1931.


A little more information is available -- there is a new book about Grace Banker's experiences in WWI and the Smithsonian is hosting a lecture about it -- here's an excerpt from their promo for the event:

"The Hello Girls received a baptism by fire when German troops pounded Paris with heavy artillery. A handful followed General “Black Jack” Pershing, commander of the American Expeditionary Forces, to battlefields where they served through shelling and bombardment. Grace Banker, their 25-year-old leader, won the Distinguished Service Medal. But their return to the States tested a different kind of valor.

The Hello Girls (Harvard University Press) by historian Elizabeth Cobbs tells the little-known story of how America’s first women soldiers helped win World War I and earn the vote—and later took on the U.S. Army. Unceremoniously discharged in 1920 as civilians, not military veterans, the Hello Girls arrived home to new voting rights with ratification of the 19th Amendment and began a fight with the Army to be treated as equals of their male comrades. A handful of survivors carried their 60-year battle to triumph in 1979, with the eventual help of the National Organization for Women, Senator Barry Goldwater, and a crusading Seattle attorney."
Source: Find a Grave