Cora Helen Bartlett was born in February 1886 in Michigan, the daughter of Levi H. Bartlett and Helen Barbara Yockey Bartlett. She was a former telephone operator from Hillsdale, Michigan, and one of the “Hello Girls” who volunteered for service with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in France during World War I, where she worked as a bilingual communications operator supporting vital military telephone exchanges. She went overseas in September 1918 as part of a group of American women assigned to assist the American Expeditionary Forces and continued her duties in France even after the war ended. Before her service, she had worked for several years as an operator in Jackson, Michigan, earning a reputation for her exceptional memory and skill in handling complex communications. While stationed in Tours, France, Bartlett fell ill and died on June 22, 1919, from typhoid, shortly after the Armistice. Her remains were later returned to the United States in 1922, and she is now buried at King Lake Cemetery in Hillsdale Township, Hillsdale County, Michigan.

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