Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association Heritage Chapter 62 - Alabama

Women's Army Corps Veterans' Association Heritage Chapter 62 - Alabama We are the Alabama Chapter of a national Army women’s membership organization. Official page. Our Chapter members support the U.S.

Our mission is to improve the welfare of veterans, particularly women veterans, in the communities surrounding Anniston. The primary focus of our support and service are in three areas: Army women veterans support and service, veterans’ services and community service. Army Women’s Museum at Fort Lee, VA, which preserves and teaches the history of all Army women. Our support dates back to our work

to maintain the WAC Museum from its beginnings on Fort McClellan to its closure in 1999. When the new museum, which contains the collections and exhibits of the WAC Museum, opened in 2001, we continued to donate historic materials and support projects such as the construction of new exhibits and the Museum’s free K -12 education programs for schoolchildren. Most of our volunteer work takes place in the Anniston, AL area:
We honor the memory of area women veterans by placing flags on their graves before Memorial Day and Christmas wreaths in December. Our chapter conducts memorial services for Chapter 62 members who have requested a service be held at the WAC Memorial Chapel on Fort McClellan or at surrounding area funeral homes, churches or cemeteries. Our veteran’s related services include donating to programs at the Birmingham Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, recognizing the outstanding woman senior ROTC student at Jacksonville State University, and by participating in and co-sponsoring activities in the city of Anniston such as Memorial Day, 9/11 Memorial Service and Veteran’s Day. Our color guard participates in area veterans related events and represent Army women proudly and professionally! Chapter 62 members personally deliver much-needed monthly donations of food to the Anniston Soup Bowl and the Center for Concern, and our members are active volunteers in community organizations to assist the homeless and needy. We also maintain the Pet Cemetery on Fort McClellan.

Happy New Year to all our members and friends!
12/31/2025

Happy New Year to all our members and friends!

Wishing all our WACVA Chapter 62 members and friends a very Merry Christmas!
12/24/2025

Wishing all our WACVA Chapter 62 members and friends a very Merry Christmas!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this years Anniston Veterans Day Parade. WACVA Heritage Chapter #62.
11/12/2025

Thank you to everyone who participated in this years Anniston Veterans Day Parade. WACVA Heritage Chapter #62.

10/12/2025
10/12/2025

On September 8th, the US Army Women's Museum in Virginia Zoomed with Ozark High School Civics students about women in the Revolutionary War. Pictured are some of the students who participated in this event.

08/24/2025

Come join us today at Pamplin Park WWII Weekend ! We’ll be there all day displaying some WWII artifacts in honor of the 80th anniversary of the end of the war! Pamplin Historical Park

08/24/2025

On we're paying our respects to all servicemembers who have repaired or operated radios! In this WWII image, Cpl. Florine Jewett and Cpl. Lorraine Howard are performing routine maintenance on radio sets. Today, the Ordnance Electronics Maintenance Training Department still teaches Soldiers these skills.

08/17/2025

Are any of our followers fans of The Gilded Age television show? We've got our own connection to the show through two dresses in our collection believed to have been owned by Consuelo Vanderbilt whose life loosely inspired the character, Gladys Russell! These dresses were donated to the museum by BG Mildred Bailey, eighth director of the Women's Army Corps. She had collected them, either through thrifting or donations, as examples of 1920s-era clothing. Examples of period clothing were used during the WAC traveling fashion show, Serving with Pride and Dignity, which modeled a timeline of WAC uniforms comparing them to the fashions of the day. The show was used as a recruiting tool for the WAC, but thrift shop finds also illustrate a part of Army culture. To date, Army spouses operate thrift shops on most installations! A fun fact to highlight on !

Our thoughts and prayers go out to family and friends of Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote who passed away on August ...
08/14/2025

Our thoughts and prayers go out to family and friends of Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote who passed away on August 10, 2025.
Many of our WACVA-AWU Chapter 62 members served with Brigadier General Evelyn Foote. You are welcome to honor her here by sharing your memories.

Official Obituary of Evelyn Foote
May 19, 1930 ~ August 10, 2025 (age 95)

Evelyn “Pat” Foote, 95, of Woodbury, MN and a long time summer resident of Ely passed away at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth on August 10, 2025.
She was born in Durham, NC on May 19, 1930.
Pat was a career Army officer, serving on active duty from 1959 to 1989, and rising to the rank of Brigadier General. Her key assignments included public affairs officer in Vietnam from 1967 to 1968 and command at battalion, brigade and post levels. She was a graduate of Wake Forest University (BA) and Shippensburg University (MS) and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Wake Forest University. Pat is best remembered in the Army for holding many firsts and for being a fierce advocate for military women.
In 1994, Pat was appointed to the American Battle Monuments Commission and subsequently to the Site and Design Committee of the WWII memorial. From 2006 -2016 she met the Ely senior class at the WWII Memorial, briefing them on the history, design and construction of the memorial.
Pat will be buried with full military honors in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.

https://www.kerntzfuneralhome.com/obituary/Evelyn-Foote

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Weaver, AL
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