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Last Female WWI Vet Dies at 109

military.com — n 1916, Winters met with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to persuade him to allow women in the service, said Kelly Auber, who grew up on South Mountain, where Winters and her husband, John Winters, settled. When the Navy opened support roles to women, Winters and her sister, Sophie, joined immediately in 1917, Auber said. By December 1918

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  • ladyjusa, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3Amazing, this would means she would have been born in 1899.

    She lived through allot in her life, she was alive when women first got the right to vote, and now for the first time, we have a female as a potential VP.

    This women is a true heroin.
  • ladyjusa, on 09/01/2008, -0/+3This story was from march of 2007 she she would have been born in 1898. Story is old but still a great read.
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