Roberta Tidmore

Roberta Jane Randolph Tidmore (born March 19, 1922) is an American military veteran who served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II as part of the Marine Corps Women's Reserve. In the 1970s, she served as president of the Women's Marine Association.

Biography Tidmore was born Roberta Jane Randolph in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in March 1922 to Clyde Randolph and Laura Mildenstein Randolph. She entered a five-year dual degree nursing program at the University of Iowa, but did not finish.

In 1944, Tidmore joined the United States Marine Corps as one of 18,000 women who joined the Marines by that year, She was then assigned to the Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. She was awarded both the American Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.

She married Terry Tidmore, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Navy, on July 4, 1960 in Winterhaven, California and left United Airlines, instead working as a tomato farmer with her husband in Southern California.

In March 2025, she celebrated her 103rd birthday at the San Diego History Center.