Raines is known as Georgia’s First Lady of Flight. After graduating from the Wesleyan Conservatory in 1936, Raines took a flying lesson on a dare and fell in love with flying. The first woman in Georgia to earn a commercial pilot’s license, she became a skilled barnstormer, and performed in air shows and fly-ins around the Macon area. During World War II, she was chosen to serve in the Air Transport Auxiliary as a ferry pilot in which she flew many types of aircraft to their delivery points for the RAF in Britain, logging more hours than any other ATA pilot. Raines was an active member of the Women’s Air Service Pilots (WASPS), performing dangerous maneuvers for training pilots and she was a mem¬ber of Amelia Earhart’s Ninety-Nines. When she died in London at age 40, she had amassed 6,400 hours of flight time in many types of aircraft. [Her sister was married to Reginald Trice (#82)]
(1916-1956) (Block 1, Section C, lot 7, Trice Mausoleum)
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