[1][2][3] In October 1936, Bennett married Louis “Speedy” Babbs, who owned a motordrome and raced motorcycles.

[4] Her biographical file in the National Air and Space Museum archives is “Babbs (Williams), Alverna Daisy Bennett”.

[5] In 1935, Bennett became a featured acrobatic dancer and trapeze artist with Ringling Brothers Circus and toured the United States.

[1][2][3] On September 19, 1944, with the help of Roscue Turner, Alverna Babbs received her student permit after certain CAA regulations were changed.

[5] She was also named “Lady Ercouper of the Year.”[5] The city of Grand Prairie, where she lived, officially declared November 7 to be “Alverna Williams Day.”[5] Texas Representative Dale Milford had an honorarium read into the Congressional Record for “A Remarkable Woman—Alverna Williams ” on December 15, 1977.