LITTLE CHUTE, WI (WFRV) – Maranda Wendell grew to become the first Commander of American Legion Put up 258 in Little Chute, Wisconsin Monday night time.
She instantly honored Alice Ludwig for her 70-year membership with the submit.
Ludwig served within the Girls’s Military Corp in WWII and at 102 years previous is the Put up 258’s oldest member.
Wendell served in Iraq as a Fight Medic in numerous assignments together with hazardous route clearance operations.
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The submit is called after Jacob Coppus, a Personal in Firm M 353rd Infantry 89th Division. He was born in Geneert, Holland earlier than immigrating to Little Chute, Wisconsin.
He was known as into service in April of 1918 and killed in motion in November of the identical yr throughout the Meuse-Argonne Marketing campaign in France.
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