Yuma, Arizona
National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution
"God, Home, and Country" 
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Chapter Activities Memorial Ladies The ladies of Yuma Chapter, NSDAR participate in a variety of community activities. One of the most rewarding of these is serving with the Memorial Ladies. Modeled on the Arlington Ladies, members of Yuma Chapter have been trained as Arizona's Cemetery Memorial Ladies. The Memorial Ladies attend numerous veteran funerals, as DAR representatives, to ensure that no veteran is buried without appropriate respect and recognition. We attend grave side services that take place at either Desert Lawn Memorial Park or Sunset Vista Cemetery, including our first grave side service on June 26, 2003, honoring Charles Capuzano. This is a highly rewarding experience for many of our chapter's members, even during our hot summer days. As of October 2005, we have attended 114 burials.  Yuma Chapter NSDAR, Memorial Ladies Left to Right seated: Joyce Sherman, Pat Burtch, Janet Nelson Standing: Gloria Parker, Joan Stevens, Lois LeMay, Verda McCain, Mary Barth. Children of the American Revolution Yuma Chapter, NSDAR works closely with the Yuma Crossing Society of the Children of the American Revolution. CAR membership is open to male and female children from birth to age 22, and our members will happily assist with the CAR application process.Please contact our Membership Chairman, Lois LeMay if you would like more information on CAR for your children. Literacy Challenge Members are encouraged to help adults and children to become literate, so that they may reach their full potential as American Citizens. In Yuma, DAR volunteers teach English to Spanish speakers, and work individually with persons needing tutoring in reading and basic math.Project Bookworm Old books and records from towns and counties have been submitted to the DAR Library in Washington, DC, but many have no name indexes. Volunteers are going through each one and making a searchable index which is then put on line. Our volunteer has done several books and would welcome an additional volunteer.Project Preservation Chapter members with computer data entry skills are helping to digitize the thousands of DAR applications received since the organization began over 100 years ago. The genealogical records will no longer be tucked away in the Washington, DC, vaults of DAR, making the information more accessible to other researchers. Each volunteer agrees to enter the material from 10 applications.Yuma Family History Center Volunteers from Yuma Chapter NSDAR regularly assist at the FHC, at 4300 W 16th St., during their genealogy research hours. A new edition of the DAR Patriot Index is available there, so one may look to see if someone has entered DAR using that particular ancestor, who contributed his efforts to the Revolution. The Center is open to the public mornings Tuesday through Saturday starting at 9 a.m. with evening hours 6:30-9 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays. For more information, their phone is 928-782-6364.The DAR Insignia is the property of, and is copyrighted by, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. |
