By Anne Snabes, MediaNews Group

Frances Mauro Masters, a “Rosie the Riveter” during World War II, rode into a Veterans Day ceremony in Royal Oak Tuesday on the back of a motorcycle, greeted with fanfare.

Some people cheered for the 103-year-old Macomb County resident as she arrived, wearing a red-and-white polka dot bow in her hair and a scarf with the iconic “We Can Do It” poster on it.

Mauro Masters, from New Baltimore, was there to attend a ceremony in which a Rosie the Riveter bronze statue, for which she was the inspiration, was unveiled at the Michigan WWII Legacy Memorial at Memorial Park in Royal Oak.

Real life Rosie Francis Mauro Masters, 103 years old, during a unveiling ceremony for a Rosie the Riveter bronze statue, with Francis’ face as the statue’s inspiration, at the Mic

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