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The latest Michigan Rosies news and events... providing Honor, Education, and Community Engagement. Serving and Preserving our Rosie the Riveter Legacy.
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The latest Michigan Rosies news and events... providing Honor, Education, and Community Engagement. Serving and Preserving our Rosie the Riveter Legacy.
Michigan Rosies’ Jeannette Gutierrez, Rose Davis and Deb Lines had a great time participating in the Whaley House’s Parasols and Patriots vintage lawn party. We recreated our unique and exclusive Michigan Rosies Rosie banner art!
It’s always fun to road trip to some of the amazing towns in Michigan to present the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Medal to our amazing WWII Rosies!
We had so much fun with our friends the Tuskegee Airmen, the Capital Area manufacturing Council, and the Michigan Pageant Queens along with our WWII Michigan Rosies in the Ypsilanti 4th of July Parade!
A really wonderful group of volunteers gathered to make our Michigan Rosies annual 4th of July greeting cards, assembly line style! We had fun making the cards, and then we were able to mail greetings from the Michigan Rosies organization to over 200 WWII Rosies and Veterans, supporters, friends and organizational partners.
We traveled out to the far west side of Michigan to present ‘Rosie’ Agnes with the Rosie the Riveter Congressional Medal.
Rep. Debbie Dingell loves the Rosies and the feeling is mutual! We got her together with some of her old Dearborn friends and the Michigan Rosies, and presented her with a special honor!
Michigan Rosies was so proud and delighted to partner with WCMU public radio and television to film three amazing WWII Rosies telling their stories for an upcoming documentary!
Michigan Rosies were invited by the Capitol Area Manufacturing Council and the Lansing International Airport (LAN) to help celebrate the airport’s 100th birthday! Our WWII ‘Rosie’ Delphine Klaput was older than the airport by one year!
Many WWII Rosie the Riveters dropped out of school to work for the war effort. Now, Michigan Sen. Sue Shink has introduced legislation that streamlines the path for them to get their high school diplomas! Prior to introducing the legislation, Sen. Shink’s office reached out to Michigan Rosies’ executive director Jeannette Gutierrez for suggestions. We were so honored to have played a part!
Rosies are rallying around the Troops just like in 1944, with a fun Michigan Rosies cardmaking event! Our group made 76 cheerful greeting cards for active servicemen and women, to be distributed by the Military Missions organization!
Rosies are rallying around the Troops just like in 1944, with a fun Michigan Rosies cardmaking event! Our group made 76 cheerful greeting cards for active servicemen and women, to be distributed by the Military Missions organization!
Michigan Rosies (Rosie the Riveter Assocation of Michigan) is a proud winner of a MotorCities National Heritage Area Mini Grant for 2026! The MotorCities National Heritage Area Partnership is a nonprofit corporation that is part of the National Heritage Area System of the National Park Service. We preserve, interpret and promote the region’s rich automotive and labor heritage.
Our Michigan Rosies group was delighted and honored to be a featured part of the Ford/UAW Joint Trust’s celebration of Rosie the Riveter Day in downtown Detroit! We loved seeing our Tuskegee friends, and several members of our group spoke as part of the program.
The 4th Annual Michigan’s Rosie the Riveter Day was a huge success, with hundreds of attendees! The free event brings together members of the community with the Real Rosie the Riveters of WWII and modern women in manufacturing and agriculture. There were exhibits, vintage planes, and educational displays, along with a wonderful speaker program, and time to mingle.
Our WWII Michigan Rosies love getting out, getting together, and meeting up with friends old and new!
Our WWII Michigan Rosies love getting out, getting together, and meeting up with friends old and new!
How much do we love educating kids about Rosie the Riveter in WWII? Lots and lots! And we talked to lots and lots of kids at the Michigan DNR Outdoor Adventure Center’s Wheel Talk event!
Looking ahead to exhibit development projects for 2026, we were aided in researching Rosie on the Farm at the MSU Library and Archives.
You’re proud of your family Rosie and so are we! Order a beautiful, custom Rosie the Riveter Honor Banner to commemorate your family heroine. Click here to learn more…
We love sending out our Michigan Rosies Rosie Teddy Bears to Rosies who are too far to pay an Honor Visit.
Part of our mission is to preserve Rosie and WWII firsthand stories, and we participated in several podcasts and media interviews during 2025, and also partnered with the National WWII Museum in New Orleans to preserve Rosie names and stories.
An important part of our mission is going beyond the costume to deeply educate communities about Rosie the Riveter and World War II. Our executive director, Jeannette Gutierrez, presents to audiences large and small, and sometimes the Real Rosies of WWII come along for the fun and to greet the public.
A wonderful group of volunteers gathered to assemble our annual Michigan Rosies Holiday Mailing. The cards go out to WWII Rosies, WWII Veterans, and our many friends and supporters… a list of over 200!
We had so much fun bringing our WWII Rosies out to Lansing to visit AgroLiquid, and learn a bit more about how women did important work in the agricultural industry during WWII.
Michigan Rosies Executive Director Jeannette Gutierrez presents Congressional Honors to 105-year-old Hester Crawford as part of the Breakfast With the Bishop Salute to Veterans event in Birmingham.
The Michigan Rosies organization was proud to partner with the Pontiac Transportation Museum to produce a Salute to Veterans event at the Museum!
We were so happy to hear that our Michigan Rosies Cards & Letters Program for WWII Rosies and WWII Veterans became a part of UPS Integrad Driver Training this month!
The Michigan Rosies had a great time greeting and educating the public at the Garden City Foodtruck Oktoberfest!
We brought our Michigan Rosies group out to the Henry Ford to see the “Our War Too” exhibit, highlighting the many ways women picthed in to help win World War II.