SMYRNA, Ga. — Sarah Plummer, a Smyrna resident and Documented Original Tuskegee Airman, died this week at 101 years old, the Atlanta Chapter Tuskegee Airmen (ACTAI) announced.
According to a release, Plummer was a flight recording operator at Moton Field in Tuskegee, Alabama, recording flight training hours for the Tuskegee pilots.
Plummer was born in Tampa, Florida, and arrived at Tuskegee after graduating with a degree in general science from Bennett College at the age of 19 in 1942. After Tuskegee, she went to school in Baltimore to become a medical records administrator and embarked on a career that would include stints at a hospital in Washington, D.C. and work with the U.S. Medical Missionary Team in Liberia.
She eventually settled in metro Atlanta and had four children, celebrating her 101st birthday a little over a month ago on Nov. 9 at the Delmar Gardens Living Facility.
The release on her passing said:
Please keep DOTA Plummer’s children and family in thoughts and prayers. Sympathy cards and condolences may be sent by way of the Atlanta Chapter Tuskegee Airmen (ACTAI) to:
ACTAI: DOTA Sarah Plummer
P.O. Box 161824
Atlanta, Georgia 30321
