EDITOR'S MESSAGE

This month please remember these women who died during September while serving our country in or during war times:

1 Sep 2008:          USA SSG Renee A Deville, 44, died at Walter Reed from injuries sustained in IRAQ
2 Sep 1899:          Army Contract Nurse Anna Campos, Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
4 Sep 2006:          USA PFC Hannah L. (Heavrin) Gunterman McKinney, 20, non-combat vehicular homicide, IRAQ
5 Sep 2004:          ILARNG SGT Shawna M. Morrison, 26, IRAQ
5 Sep 2012:          USA CWO2 Thalia S (Ramirez) Belbeck, 28, helicopter crash, AFGHANISTAN
6 Sep 2011:          NVARNG SFC Miranda McElhiney, 31, murdered at IHOP in NV
7 Sep 2007:          USA SPC Marisol Heredia, 19, IRAQ
8 Sep 2006:          USAR SFC Merideth L Howard, 52, AFGHANISTAN
11 Sep 2001:        PAPD CPT Kathy Mazza-Delosh, 46, killed when WTC collapsed
11 Sep 2001:        EMT Yamel Merino, 24, killed when WTC collapsed
11 Sep 2001:        NYPD Officer Moira Smith, 38, killed when WTC collapsed
11 Sep 2001:        USNR LT Mari-Rae Sopper, PENTAGON on AA Flight 77
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Vicki C Yancey, 43, Navy technician, PENTAGON on AA Flight 77
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Samantha Lightbourn-Allen, 36, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USN YN3 Melissa Rose Barnes, 27, telecommunications, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Carrie R Blagburn, 48, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Donna Marie Bowen, 42, Army contract budgeting office, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Angelene C Carter, 51, Army staff accountant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Sharon Ann Carver, 38, Army accountant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Rosa Maria (Rosemary) Chapa, 64, senior management Office of the Comptroller, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Ada Marie Davis, 57, accountant for Secretary of the Army, Resource Management, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USN SK3 Jamie Lynn Fallon, 23, storekeeper in Office of the Chief of Naval Operations Support Activity, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Amelia Virginia Fields, 36, Army secretary, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Sandra Nadine Foster, 41, DIA senior management officer, Office of the Deputy Comptroller for Force Structure and Management, Office of the Comptroller, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Brenda Colbert Gibson, 59, budget analyst for Resource Services Washington in the office of the administrative assistant to the Secretary of the Army, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Diane Hale-McKinzy, 38, civil servant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Carolyn B Halmon, 49, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Sheila M S Hein, 51, Army internship studying manpower analysis, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Angela M Houtz, 27, senior analyst for the Office of Naval Intelligence, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Peggie M Hurt, 36, Army accountant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Judith L. Jones, 53, civil servant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Brenda Kegler, 49, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Shelley Ann (Farr) Marshall, 37, DIA senior management officer in the comptroller’s office, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Teresa M Martin, 45, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Ada L Wilson Mason-Acker, 50, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Molly L. McKenzie, 38, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Patricia E Mickley, 41, civil servant for the Department of Defense, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Odessa V. Morris, 54, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Diana Borrero de Padro, 55, accountant for the office of the Secretary of the Army, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USA SPC Chin Sun Pak-Wells, 25, administrative assistant to the deputy chief of staff for personnel, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Deborah Ann Ramsaur, 45, secretary to the US deputy chief of staff for personnel, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Rhonda Sue Ridge Rasmussen, 44, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USN IT1 Marsha Dianah. Ratchford, 34, Navy information technician, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Martha M Reszke, 36, Army budget office, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Cecelia E. Richard, 41, Army accounting technician, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Judy Rowlett, 44, transportation assistant with the Defense Resources Activity, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Marjorie Champion Salamone, 53, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Janice Marie Scott, 46, budget officer for Resource Services Washington, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Marian H Serva, 47, Army congressional affairs contact officer, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Antionette M Sherman, 35, worked for the Army, actually died 7 days later on 18 Sep, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Cheryle D. Sincock, 53, civil servant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Patricia J Statz, 41, worked for the Army, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Edna Lee Stephens, 53, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Sandra Carol Taylor, 50, Army civil servant, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USA SGT Tamara Thurman, 25, assistant in the office of the deputy chief of staff for personnel, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USA LTC Karen J. Wagner, 40, medical personnel officer in the office of the Army surgeon general and deputy chief of staff for personnel, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Meta L Waller, 60, special programs manager for the administrative assistant to the Army secretary, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        USA SSG Maudlyn A White, 38, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Sandra Letitia (Murray) White, 44, Army budget analyst, PENTAGON
11 Sep 2001:        CIVILIAN Lisa L Young, 36, personnel assistant, PENTAGON
12 Sep 2006:        USA 2LT Emily J T Perez, 23, IED, IRAQ
13 Sep 1944:        WASP Alice E. Lovejoy, WW II
13 Sep 2014:         USAR SSG Virginia Caballero, 41, possible blood clot while enroute home
14 Sep 2006:        USA SGT Jennifer Hartman, 21, IED, IRAQ
14 Sep 2006:        USA CPT Rebecca Ann Jarabek, 28, Medivac Pilot died in OH
15 Sep 2003:        USA SPC Alyssa Renee Peterson, 27, non-combat gunshot, IRAQ
16 Sep 2013:        Civilian Kathy Gaarde, 62, Navy Yard shooting victim
16 Sep 2013:        Civilian Mary F Knight, 51, Navy Yard shooting victim
16 Sep 2013:        Civilian Sylvia Frasier, 53, Navy Yard shooting victim
17 Sep 2008:        CIVILIN Susan El-Baneh, 18, terrorist bombing US Embassy, Sanaa, Yemen
18 Sep 1920:        USN NNC Grace Coulter, died at Marine hospital, Louisville,KY
18 Sep 2010:        USA PFC Barbara Vieyra, 22, IED/RPG attack, AFGHANISTAN
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC ENS Eleanor Beste, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC ENS Marie Boatman, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Jeanne E. Clarke, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Jane L. Eldridge, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC ENS Constance R. Esposito, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Alice S. Giroux, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Calla C. Goodwin, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Constance A. Heege, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC LT (jg) Margaret Grace Kennedy, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC Ensign Mary E. Lijegreen, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 1950:        USN NNC Ensign Edna J. Rundell, plane crash into the Pacific Ocean
19 Sep 2006:        USA 1LT Ashley (Henderson) Huff, 23, IED, IRAQ
19 Sep 2006:        USN LCDR Jane E (Lanham) Tafoya, 43, natural causes, Bahrain
19 Sep 2009:        USA SSG Cynthia Meadows, 35, difficulty breathing, Ft Huachuca
19 Sep 2015:        USAR MAJ Paula (Askins) Graham, 38, Chester, VA, suicide
20 Sep 2007:        USA CPT (Dr) Roselle M. Hoffmaster, 32, non-combat incident, IRAQ
23 Sep 1943:        WASP Betty Taylor Wood, WW II
24 Sep 2010:        USA PFC Jaysmine S Petree, 19, IED, AFGHANISTAN
25 Sep 1898:        Army Contract Nurse Irene Toland MD, Typhoid Fever, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR
25 Sep 2008:        USA PVT Dominque Gibson-Brooks, 19, seizure in room during BCT Ft Jackson, SC
26 Sep 1950:        USAF AFNC CPT Vera M. Brown, at Ashiya Air Base, Japan due to plane she was assigned to crashed during a medical evacuation flight
28 Sep 2005:        USAF A1C Elizabeth N. Jacobson, IRAQ
28 Sep 2007:        MAARNG SPC Ciara Durkin, 29, non-combat gunshot, AFGHANISTAN
29 Sep 1968:        CIVILIAN Betty Ann Olsen, missionary nurse, VIETNAM
30 Sep 1943:        WAC Tech5 Edith Ballinger, air crash at Maxton Field, Laurinburg, NC
30 Sep 2008:        USA SGT Christina Smith, 29, murdered by soldier husband at Ft Bragg, NC
30 Sep 2011:        USA SGT Sophie Champoux, 25, suicide after being raped 3 times, Ft Stewart, GA

You can learn a little more about these women as well as those who died in The Pentagon on 9/11/01 and in the Oklahoma City bombing by going to my webpages honoring them at:


If I have left anyone off--kindly let me know. I am still trying to find exact dates for those who died in earlier wars--those women will be listed each January if I can't find any other dates.

Noonie Fortin
1SG, USAR (Ret)
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A Veteran - whether active duty, retired, National Guard or Reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to "The People of the United States of America", for any amount "up to and including my life". ~ Author unknown.




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