[2] She also lived in Wichita, Kansas, where she garnered a love for aviation from childhood, watching aircraft come and go, very often every day, as they were manufactured nearby.
In 1928, at the age of 19, Jessie left home with her boyfriend, Jimmie Woods, and they married on 28 August 1928 in Wichita.
She also walked on the wings of flying aircraft, parachuting off, or dangling below them, with her knees holding a rope ladder.
In 1941, she and her husband Jimmie leased a field in South Carolina, with the American government shortly after granting the couple licenses to train military pilots.
[2] Jessie E. Woods retired from flying in 1994 and died on 17 March 2001, at Great Bend, Kansas, at the age of 92.