Monahans Auxiliary Leads Ward County Veterans Support
The Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4004 in Monahans was instituted June 14, 1945 at the First Methodist Church Seation Hall led by Mrs. Ethel Iper under district president Mrs. Icie Shoop. Charter members include Mrs. N. R. Butler and Mrs. P. M. Rowland and many local women. funds supported the Texas Cottage Fund and provided clothing and chairs for VFW facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monahans
First Methodist Church
Ethel Iper
Icie Shoop
Texas Cottage Fund
VFW
Methodist Church
American Legion
Ward Members Receive Posts As District Officers
Forty seven members of Ladies Wars attended District 25 convention in Kermit May 25. Wade- Yates Post No. 6284 hosted election and installation of district officers for the ensuing year. Mrs. Pearl Barker Pecos was elected District 25 President for the year. Her staff included Priscilla Webb Chaplain Kenneth Crozier Patriotic Instructor and Homer Nettleton Color Bearer No 1. T C Selman Freeport spoke to posts and auxiliaries. Betty McMullen Midland Chief of Staff attended. Delegates to Butler Rowland Locke Hayes Post 4004 were M A Eckermann Crozier Benton Welch and Charles Clark. Alternates were Homer Nettleton and Garland Gary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Kermit
Wade- Yates
Pearl Barker
Pecos
Priscilla Webb
Kenneth Crozier
Homer Nettleton
T. C. Selman
Freeport
Department of Texas
Department of Texas Auxiliary
Betty McMullen
Midland
Butler - Rowland - Locke Hayes
M. A. Eckermann
Benton Welch
Charles Clark
Garland Gary
Pyote Auxiliary: Longstanding Service and Community Work
The Pyote Hayes Auxiliary to Post No. 9174 was instituted on October 3, 1953. Members include Mary Susie Sevier, Betty Martin, P. M. Rowland, Dolly Sutterland, and others. Activities span Christmas parties for Ward County children, fundraisers like box suppers and bingo, and donations to Heart Fund Cancer Research Fund and Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation. The unit consolidated with Monahans in April 1957, boosting activity and support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post and Auxiliary
Ward County
Santa Claus
Veterans Administration Hospital
Big Spring
Wickett
Pyoto American Legion Auxiliary
Gonzales Warm Springs Foundation
March of Dimes
Heart Fund
Cancer Research Fund
Pyote
Monahans
Monahans Sandhills State Park
VFW Auxiliary Consolidation Strengthens Ward County Units
Three small Ladies Auxiliary units of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Ward County merged in April 1957 to form a single post. In year one, Butler Rowland Locke Hayes Post 4004 grew into a leading women’s organization with M. A. Eckerman as initial president. Current president Priscilla E. Webb took office April 21 with a full slate of officers and representatives from Monahans Wickett Grandfalls Pyote and other communities listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eckerman
Ward County
Ladies Auxiliary
Veterans of Foreign Wars
M. A. Eckerman
Pyote
Priscilla E. Webb
Special Citations At Meeting Mark National Radio Month
In observance of National Radio Month Mrs. Jean Welch of Radio Station KWKM spoke to thirty VFW Post and Auxiliary members on Wherever You Go There's Radio. Priscilla Webb presented Radio KVKM and The Monahans News with Community Service Award and Citation of Merit certificates. Webb praised Ward County media cooperation as unmatched in VFW history. The VFW Post also awarded Webb a Community Service Special Award for compiling the VFW Community Service Story from 1957-58 activities. Mrs. Betty Martin, the only Gold Star Wife in the VFW Auxiliary, received a three-year Treasurer’s Pin in 1948. Joy Muske now lives in Ardmore, Oklahoma, after Pyote charter membership. correspondence notes a large active Auxiliary there.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Welch
K.W.K.M
VFW
Priscilla Webb
K.V.K.M
Monahans News
VFW Post
Webb
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Betty Martin
Joy Muske
Pyote
Ardmore
Oklahoma
Memorial Service Tonight In Pyote Honoring Five Men
Public invited to attend a memorial service tonight at 8:00 at the Pyote VFW Hall for five men after whom Butler Rowland Locke Hayes Post 4004 is named. The event includes floorwork by the Auxiliary and a tribute to Edward Glynwood Butler Robert Cletus Rowland Robert Hale Locke Arthur Erwin Hayes and Dennis E Hayes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pyote
Grandfalls Auxiliary
Grandfalls
Pyote Vfw
Union Church
Robert Locke
Holland
Military
Fort Sam Houston
San Antonio
VFW Auxiliary Honors Ten-Year Members
The VFW Auxiliary presented ten year continuous membership pins in April to Mrs. John Gordon Mrs. Charles Locke Mrs. D. S. Nichols Sr Mrs. Corean Sindorf Mrs. A. B. Hale Sr Mrs. Betty Martin Mrs. Herbert Pope Mrs. Luke Snelson Mrs. Nina Opal Locke Mrs. Homer Nettleton Mrs. P. A. Rowland and Mrs. Dolly Sutterland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Monahans -Mesdames
Harvey Adams
Tiny Baker
Essie M. Bryan
Floyd Camp
Robert Clark
Edna Clark
Elmer Flack
O. L. Gray
Mary Johnson
Fred Mann
Betty Martin
Ethel Belle Martin
Nelson Norris
Ray Price
Percy A. Rowland
A. A. Soderberg
Betty Porter Wranosky
Wickett
L. B. Allison
James Fowler
Dalton Moore
Grand
Juanama Burr
Oildale
California
Leon Schroeder
Big Spring
Corean Sindori
San Jose
Dolly Sutterland
St. Louis
Missouri
Cleveland Tracewell
Ogden
Utah
Herbert Pope
Tokio
Texas
VFW
John Gordon
Charles Locke
D. S. Nichols
Corean Sindorf
A. B. Hale
Luke Snelson
Nina Opal Locke
Homer Nettleton
P. A. Rowland
Robert Locke
Grandfalls
Mabel O. Anthony
Nichols
Gordon
Five-Year Members Named in VIW Auxiliary List
The VIW Auxiliary announces five year continuous members including Mrs. Tiny Baker Mrs. Dalton Moore Mrs. Cleland Tracewell Mrs. W T Wheeler Jr Mrs. M A Eckerman Mrs. Leroy Price Mrs. Joe Weaks Mrs. J R Lamothe Mrs. Leon Schroeder and Mrs. Priscilla E Webb.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesdames
Gladys Blalock
M. A. Eckerman
Mary Edwards
Willie Fowler
Sadie Holland
J. R. Lamothe
Dalton Moore
Joy Muske
LeRoy Price
Annie Schulte
Leon Schroeder
Barbara Smith
Muriel Stribling
Joe Weaks
W. T. Wheeler, Jr
Don Woods
Barstow
VIW
Tiny Baker
Cleland Tracewell
Priscilla E. Webb
Life Membership Presented to Inez Eckerman
Mrs M A Eckerman retires as president of the VFW Auxiliary and receives a Life Membership in the VFW National Home Eaton Rapids Michigan. The Home provides care for children of veterans with a house mother, library, chapel, hospital, gym, and playgrounds. Members vote yearly on the Home trustee and funds support future security.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Eckerman
VFW
VFW National Home
Eaton Rapids
Michigan
Pyote
National Home
VFW and Auxiliary
Auxiliary Donates Big to Local and National Projects
The Ladies Auxiliary to Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4004 reports $1,307.91 in donations and $233.64 in collections, plus 62 hospital gifts and many acts of service. Monthly items include support for Poppy Day, scholarship contests, nursing funds, health and veterans hospitals, and community outreach in Ward County. The group funded clubroom work, Christmas parties, and the VFW National Home activities, with numerous gifts and cash contributions through May.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Butler - Rowland - Locke Hayes Post
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Members Donate Over Twenty Million Hours
The 330 900 members in 48 states Alaska Hawaii and the Canal Zone contributed more than 20 million hours of trained voluntary service last year. Mrs J R Lamothe remains in Pyote serving as a one year trustee. Gold Star Mothers in the Auxiliary since consolidation include Mrs P M Rowland Mrs Nina Opal Locke Mrs Essie M Bryan and Mrs Lee Drake. Ernestine Schroeder moved to Big Spring but visits often.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
VFW Ladies Auxiliary
States
Alaska
Hawaii
Canal Zone
Gold Star
Auxiliary
P. M. Rowland
Nina Opal Locke
Essie M. Bryan
Lee Drake
Ernestine Schroeder
Big Spring
Also Mentioned on This Page
J. S. Reynolds
Bruce Franklin
Rose Avary
Edwards Sevier
Sue Pease
Juanice Taylor
N. R. Butler
Helen Avary
Effie Boyett
Floy Brewer
Ethel Bristow
Lena May Britt
Christine G. Cannon
Paul Carr
Emily Chamberlain
Frances Clark
Rossie Clark
Jewell Cook
Lila Daniel Mabel Dennis
Loyce Ounita Douglas
Ednad Ellithorpe
June Estes
D. P. Greenwade
Rita Harrington
Crystal Howard
Ozeila Hunt
Tommie Jones
Louise Kirby
Norma Klinger
Minnie Lawson
Marie McGowen
Ira M. Morris
Beth Odom
A. E. Pipkins
Mesdames Beverly Roberts
Lula Ruffner
Marie Russell
Nora Russell
Johnnie A. Scott
Mary Susie Sevier
Shirley Smith
Fred Snelson
Ernestine Spears
Charity Stark
Sidney Belle Steadman
Catherine Stephens
Kay Tannehill
H. F. Wurtz, Jr
Hayes and Hayes
W. G. Ray
VFW Club
Butler-Rowland Auxiliary
Rowland
Monahans Organization
The
Sutterland
Inez Eckerman
Pyote Auxiliary
Aran Air Force Base
New Mexico
Bill Wheeler
Gulf Oil Corporation
Butler-Rowland-Locke-Hayes
Lyndon F. Webb
James Lamothe
G. H. Gary
Clyde Moshier
W. T. Wheeler
Bart Ramsey
Joe
Weaks
D. Smoot
Elton North
Gene Zinnani
Cleda Falk
MRS
S Award
Ward
Student
First Ground Observers Corps
Veterans Administration
New Tatum
McKnight State Tuberculosis Hospital
Walter Harwell
Sweeney
National Muscular Dystrophy Foundation Inc
Liberty
Josephine
David Holtman
Bandera
Mian Basin District
American Heart Association
Pyote School
Hudler
National Muscular Dystrophy Research Foundation
Health and Happiness Fund
Quota
Austin
Ken Welch
KVKM
Grandfalls Vfw
Forrest Smith
Kingsmen
County Coliseum
Niblack
S. Main
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