World War II Navy Codebreaker from Montco Celebrates Her 100th Birthday

Montgomery County resident Doris Magers turns 100 on Saturday, and she is celebrating a life well-lived.

Magers graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1942 before serving in the Navy as part of the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program, which is more commonly known as WAVES.

She was one of some 100,000 women who joined the Navy and were granted a status comparable to their male peers. Magers worked as a codebreaker -- focusing on encoding and decoding efforts for the communications department.