French Colony Chapter, NSDAR

05/05/2026

03/24/2026

French Colony will host 41 students as they compete at the History Day competition on Saturday, March 28. Who can volunteer to help? We need to meet at Bob Evans Hall room 114 at University of Rio Grande at 7:30 am and stay until around noon. I've received a $10 donation to purchase snacks for the students. Perhaps there will be parents that we can invite to join DAR, while we're there.

12/14/2025

Wreaths Across America 2025 at Pine Street Cemeteries.

11/14/2025

French Colony Daughters: Our chapter is hosting this event to create favors that will be given at the 2026 Ohio State DAR conference. Please RSVP to Trena Riffle so proper quantities of materials are available. Please join us on Saturday, Nov. 22nd!

11/07/2025

A reminder for French Colony DAR members: Our business meeting tomorrow, November 8th, is at 10 am in the Switzer Room at Bossard Memorial Library, 7 Spruce Street, Gallipolis, Ohio. Join us to hear the four American History essay entries and to prepare cards thanking military veterans at a local nursing home.

11/05/2025

NOTE LOCATION CHANGE! The business meeting for French Colony Chapter will be held at Bossard Memorial Library's Switzer Room* on Sat. Nov. 8 at 10 am. November is National Veterans and Military Families Month. As part of a Veteran's Month program, please bring a few Veteran's Day cards to sign. They will be hand delivered to military vets in a local nursing home. Those members who are unable to attend the meeting Saturday can mail their signed cards to: A Veteran c/o Abbyshire 311 Buck Ridge Rd., Bidwell, OH, 45614

Don't forget:
1. It's time to renew member ship by paying annual dues.
2. Report your volunteer hours on DAR.org
3. Save pocket change and bring to meetings as a fundraiser
4. We are in need of a chaplain. See Trena to volunteer.

*This program is neither sponsored, co-sponsored nor endorsed by Bossard Memorial Library.

10/19/2025

French Colony Chapter mourns the loss of their chaplain, Peggy Latham. Visitation is Sunday, Oct. 19, at Willis Funeral Home, 12 Garfield Ave., Gallipolis, Ohio, from 1-2 o'clock with the funeral service beginning at 2 o'clock. Burial is at 4 o'clock at Letart Falls Cemetery in Meigs County.

10/07/2025

Would you like French Colony to be a Cherry Blossom Chapter? Here are the requirements and we have plenty of time to work on them! We celebrated the chapter's 99th anniversary with a delicious brunch (Thanks again, Cindy, Cathy and Gwen!). OSDAR Southeast District Director Gina Tillis joined us, shared the Cherry Blossom incentive (the pin is huge and lovelier in person) and she won the door prize. A program for Veterans Day is needed. Contact Trena Riffle with ideas/suggestions.

In other news, four members met at Pine Street Cemetery to spray monuments. It'll be great to see the icky black and moss/lichen disappear during the next few months. We'll continue the project until the entire cemetery has been treated.

Also, all Gallia County schools received Constitution booklets and information for the DAR essay and video contests. There have been a few inquiries so I believe we will have some entries to submit to the district level in November. I have judges already lined up.

09/28/2025

Please join us for brunch to celebrate the 99th anniversary for French Colony DAR at 10 am Saturday, October 4, 2025, at Grace Methodist Church 600 2nd Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio. Cost is $12

RSVP to Cathy Greenleaf via text: 740-645-8709 or via email: [email protected]

09/28/2025

Please join us at 10 am on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, as French Colony celebrates its 99th anniversary with a brunch at Grace Methodist Church 600 2nd Avenue, Gallipolis, Ohio. Cost is $12.

RSVP to Cathy Greenleaf via test message: 740-645-8709 or email: [email protected]

09/05/2025

Do you want to make a difference? Join the French Colony DAR at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 13th, to spray away the moss and stains from the monuments in the Pine Street Cemetery.

See the before and after photos of a monument in the Pioneer Cemetery in Point Pleasant. The first was taken in June 2024 when the Col. Lewis Chapter DAR applied D/2 and the second is the same monument taken in August 2025.

Grab your gloves and bring D/2 or Wet and Forget Outdoor and you will make a difference!