Family Group Sheet
NameJoseph W. Brickey
Birth8 Feb 1917
DeathOct 1982, Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
SpouseGarnet E. Skaggs
Birth5 Jun 1921, Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio
Death16 Apr 2010, Grovetown, Columbia Co., Georgia
FatherDewey Estel Skaggs (1898-1966)
MotherRose Anna “Annie” Pack (1903-1949)
Other spousesBoyd C. Thompson
Notes for Joseph W. Brickey
The SSDI lists Joseph Brickey, born 8 Feb 1917, died Oct 1982, last residence Portsmouth, Scioto Co., Ohio, SSN issued in Kentucky.
Notes for Garnet E. Skaggs
The U.S. Public Records index (based mostly on voter registrations) lists the following addresses for Garnet (or Garnett) E. Brickey with birth date 5 June 1921:
283 Labert Hollow Rd, Portsmouth, OH
643 Oleander Ave, Fort Myers, FL
115 Shadygrove Dr, Apt B, Martinez, GA
4747 W. Creek Mill Court, Grovetown, GA
(The Grovetown address also appears with the middle initial S, probably for Skaggs.)
The SSDI lists Garnet E. Brickey, born 5 June 1921, died 16 Apr 2010, last residence Grovetown, Columbia Co., Georgia, SSN issued in Ohio before 1951.
An article in the Columbia County [Georgia] News-Times contained the following interview with Garnet:
“A past generation
Two of Ross' more recent recruits, including Tutt, were women, but at one time, female recruits weren't such a common thing.
"I was in the first group to arrive at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for basic training,'' said Garnet Brickey, of Grovetown, who entered the Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. "We took over men's barracks, barracks that had been used by men, and they were really rough ... They (the Army) were a little slow to accept women. We were auxiliary when I first enlisted and after about seven months they accepted us into the regular Army.''
For Brickey, the reason to sign up for military service was obvious.
"Well, it was just I was amazed at the fact that the Japanese bombed us, attacked us, so I just decided I wanted to help out,'' she said. "I wanted to do my part.''
Brickey said she mostly remembers Pearl Harbor for how people responded to it, adding that many people enlisted in the Army.
"They (Americans) were very angry,'' she said. "There was a shop next door to me and the owner of the shop got a barrel and broke every dish made in Japan. I heard him out there breaking dishes.''
Brickey said her job in the Army was to help out back in the United States by transporting officers and picking up injured soldiers who had returned from the battlefield.
These days, Brickey said, the world is much different, saying the war in Iraq doesn't have similarities to how the U.S. got involved in World War II.
"I don't think we have any business going into Iraq,'' she said. "If he (Saddam Hussein) had planned and been behind this attack on 9-11, it would have been different, but he wasn't really. He wasn't a nice man. He was a bad man, but he did not attack us and I don't think we should have stuck our nose in his business. I think it's altogether different.''
That said, if given the chance again to serve her country, Brickey said that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she likely would have enlisted in the Army just as she did after Pearl Harbor.
"I guess so,'' she said. "I would have done my part.''
283 Labert Hollow Rd, Portsmouth, OH
643 Oleander Ave, Fort Myers, FL
115 Shadygrove Dr, Apt B, Martinez, GA
4747 W. Creek Mill Court, Grovetown, GA
(The Grovetown address also appears with the middle initial S, probably for Skaggs.)
The SSDI lists Garnet E. Brickey, born 5 June 1921, died 16 Apr 2010, last residence Grovetown, Columbia Co., Georgia, SSN issued in Ohio before 1951.
An article in the Columbia County [Georgia] News-Times contained the following interview with Garnet:
“A past generation
Two of Ross' more recent recruits, including Tutt, were women, but at one time, female recruits weren't such a common thing.
"I was in the first group to arrive at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for basic training,'' said Garnet Brickey, of Grovetown, who entered the Army shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II. "We took over men's barracks, barracks that had been used by men, and they were really rough ... They (the Army) were a little slow to accept women. We were auxiliary when I first enlisted and after about seven months they accepted us into the regular Army.''
For Brickey, the reason to sign up for military service was obvious.
"Well, it was just I was amazed at the fact that the Japanese bombed us, attacked us, so I just decided I wanted to help out,'' she said. "I wanted to do my part.''
Brickey said she mostly remembers Pearl Harbor for how people responded to it, adding that many people enlisted in the Army.
"They (Americans) were very angry,'' she said. "There was a shop next door to me and the owner of the shop got a barrel and broke every dish made in Japan. I heard him out there breaking dishes.''
Brickey said her job in the Army was to help out back in the United States by transporting officers and picking up injured soldiers who had returned from the battlefield.
These days, Brickey said, the world is much different, saying the war in Iraq doesn't have similarities to how the U.S. got involved in World War II.
"I don't think we have any business going into Iraq,'' she said. "If he (Saddam Hussein) had planned and been behind this attack on 9-11, it would have been different, but he wasn't really. He wasn't a nice man. He was a bad man, but he did not attack us and I don't think we should have stuck our nose in his business. I think it's altogether different.''
That said, if given the chance again to serve her country, Brickey said that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, she likely would have enlisted in the Army just as she did after Pearl Harbor.
"I guess so,'' she said. "I would have done my part.''
