Last WWI female vet passes away

In 1916, Charlotte L. Winters called on the secretary of the Navy and asked why women weren’t allowed to enlist.  A year later, she had begun her military career.  This week,Mrs. Winters – the nation’s oldest female military veteran – died inher sleep at the Fahrney-Keedy life care community in Boonsboro. Shewas 109.  “She is the last female World War I veteran,” American Legion spokeswoman Ramona E. Joyce said yesterday.  With Mrs. Winters’ death, there are only four surviving U.S. veteransfrom the “war to end all wars,” according to the Scripps Howard NewsService, which tracks living veterans of that war. Since the beginningof the year, six – including Mrs. Winters on Tuesday – have died.

Read more about this extraordinary woman in the Baltimore Sun.