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In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

Winters, who served as a yeoman in the U.S. Naval Reserve, died Tuesday
at Fahrney-Keedy home near Boonsboro, The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail
reported. She was born Nov. 10, 1897, in Washington.

She served at a gun production facility at the Washington Navy Yard and
in other positions there until she retired in 1953. Her friends told the
Herald-Mail she was proud of her work as a secretary for the U.S. Navy.
But they said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about as she
got older and there were fewer and fewer WWI veterans alive.

"Why are they doing this for me? I don't deserve all this," Doug Bast of
Boonsboro recalled her saying.

Her friend Kelly Auber said Winters told Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels in 1916 that women should be allowed to join the service. When
women were allowed after March 1917, Auber said, Winters and her sister
were quick to participate.

By December 1918, the Naval District said more than 11,000 women had
enlisted and were serving in support positions such as secretarial and
clerical jobs.

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

IIRC, there's only one man still alive in the UK who was a serving soldier
in WW1.
I don't know about Commonwealth soldiers, though.
My mother, who celebrated her 95th birthday earlier this week, remembers
Zeppelin air raids on London and having to go to the local Police Station to
shelter in the cells.

Smiler,
The godless one

In article <jhachmann-4EA1A5.16550229032007@news.giganews.com>, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

Winters, who served as a yeoman in the U.S. Naval Reserve, died Tuesday
at Fahrney-Keedy home near Boonsboro, The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail
reported. She was born Nov. 10, 1897, in Washington.

She served at a gun production facility at the Washington Navy Yard and
in other positions there until she retired in 1953. Her friends told
the
Herald-Mail she was proud of her work as a secretary for the U.S. Navy.
But they said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about as she
got older and there were fewer and fewer WWI veterans alive.

"Why are they doing this for me? I don't deserve all this," Doug Bast
of
Boonsboro recalled her saying.

Her friend Kelly Auber said Winters told Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels in 1916 that women should be allowed to join the service. When
women were allowed after March 1917, Auber said, Winters and her sister
were quick to participate.

By December 1918, the Naval District said more than 11,000 women had
enlisted and were serving in support positions such as secretarial and
clerical jobs.

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

The scary thing is, I'm old enough to remember when they were saying
this about Civil War vets.

In article <jhachmann-4EA1A5.16550229032007@news.giganews.com>, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

Winters, who served as a yeoman in the U.S. Naval Reserve, died Tuesday
at Fahrney-Keedy home near Boonsboro, The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail
reported. She was born Nov. 10, 1897, in Washington.

She served at a gun production facility at the Washington Navy Yard and
in other positions there until she retired in 1953. Her friends told the
Herald-Mail she was proud of her work as a secretary for the U.S. Navy.
But they said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about as she
got older and there were fewer and fewer WWI veterans alive.

"Why are they doing this for me? I don't deserve all this," Doug Bast of
Boonsboro recalled her saying.

Her friend Kelly Auber said Winters told Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels in 1916 that women should be allowed to join the service. When
women were allowed after March 1917, Auber said, Winters and her sister
were quick to participate.

By December 1918, the Naval District said more than 11,000 women had
enlisted and were serving in support positions such as secretarial and
clerical jobs.

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

The scary thing is, I'm old enough to remember when they were saying
this about Civil War vets.

-chib

In article <jhachmann-4EA1A5.16550229032007@news.giganews.com>, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote:

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

Winters, who served as a yeoman in the U.S. Naval Reserve, died Tuesday
at Fahrney-Keedy home near Boonsboro, The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail
reported. She was born Nov. 10, 1897, in Washington.

She served at a gun production facility at the Washington Navy Yard and
in other positions there until she retired in 1953. Her friends told the
Herald-Mail she was proud of her work as a secretary for the U.S. Navy.
But they said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about as she
got older and there were fewer and fewer WWI veterans alive.

"Why are they doing this for me? I don't deserve all this," Doug Bast of
Boonsboro recalled her saying.

Her friend Kelly Auber said Winters told Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels in 1916 that women should be allowed to join the service. When
women were allowed after March 1917, Auber said, Winters and her sister
were quick to participate.

By December 1918, the Naval District said more than 11,000 women had
enlisted and were serving in support positions such as secretarial and
clerical jobs.

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

The scary thing is, I'm old enough to remember when they were saying
this about Civil War vets.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:55:02 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in alt.atheism

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

[]

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

Probably no more than a handful. So much knowledge dies with them.

On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 16:55:02 -0700, johac
<jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in alt.atheism

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female World
War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

[]

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

Probably no more than a handful. So much knowledge dies with them.

johac <jhachmann@remove.sbcglobal.net> wrote in news:jhachmann-
4EA1A5.16550229032007@news.giganews.com:

In article <jp3o03lhv2hi1p0mkk4l441fe3pacb3drc@4ax.com>,
stoney <stoney@the.net> wrote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17842562/?GT1=9145

Last female World War I vet dies at 109
Charlotte Winters served at a gun production facility

Updated: 12:38 p.m. ET March 29, 2007

BOONSBORO, Md. - {AP}Charlotte Winters, the last surviving female

World

War I veteran, has died, the U.S. Naval District in Washington said
Wednesday. She was 109.

Winters, who served as a yeoman in the U.S. Naval Reserve, died

Tuesday

at Fahrney-Keedy home near Boonsboro, The (Hagerstown) Herald-Mail
reported. She was born Nov. 10, 1897, in Washington.

She served at a gun production facility at the Washington Navy Yard

and

in other positions there until she retired in 1953. Her friends told

the

Herald-Mail she was proud of her work as a secretary for the U.S.

Navy.

But they said she didn't understand what all the fuss was about as she
got older and there were fewer and fewer WWI veterans alive.

"Why are they doing this for me? I don't deserve all this," Doug Bast

of

Boonsboro recalled her saying.

Her friend Kelly Auber said Winters told Secretary of the Navy

Josephus

Daniels in 1916 that women should be allowed to join the service. When
women were allowed after March 1917, Auber said, Winters and her

sister

were quick to participate.

By December 1918, the Naval District said more than 11,000 women had
enlisted and were serving in support positions such as secretarial and
clerical jobs.

Winters' funeral is planned Friday at the Bast Funeral Home in
Boonsboro. She will be buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick.

The passing of an era. I wonder how many WW1 vets are still around in
all?

My grandfather was a WWI vet, but he died in 1980. He's the only WWI vet
I've met.