Ruth Cheney Streeter; First Women’s Marine Reserve Director

Ruth Cheney Streeter, 94, who made military history during World War II as the first director of the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. A native of Brookline, Mass., and 1918 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mrs. Streeter became the highest-ranking woman in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1943 when she was named to head the Women’s Reserve. She retired from the Marines as a colonel after the war and was active in the New Jersey State Relief Council, the Commission on Interstate Cooperation and the Board of Children’s Guardians. On Sunday in Morristown, N.J., of heart failure.