# So long, Bobbie Trout

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-bobbie-trout/151779>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 31, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-bobbie-trout/151779 "2003-01-31T01:42:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-bobbie-trout/151779/1 "2003-01-31T01:42:29Z")

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Famed aviatrix [Evelyn “Bobbi” Trout](http://www.ninety-nines.org/trout.html) died last Friday at the age of 97.

What a life!

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**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-bobbie-trout/151779/2 "2003-01-31T02:17:11Z")

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> Bobbie went on to new horizons on January 24, 2003.

I hope, when I go, that someone recalls me with a phrase so apt as this.

What an incredible life.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-long-bobbie-trout/151779/3 "2003-01-31T13:26:12Z")

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I went to the Ninety-Nines page, and there are 22 names that have no year of death (23 if you count Trout, as they haven’t updated the page yet). Over half of them are listed as “whereabouts unknown”. I’d never thought about how many of the Ninety-Nines were left.