Our Vets

VETERANS WE ARE SO VERY PROUD OF OUR PIETY HILL CHAPTER VETERANS

COLONEL MARJORY E. TRUAX DOLEZEL ANC USAR-Ret., R.N., B.N, M.H.A.
Deceased June 4, 2011
January 1941 - July 1975

Served Our Country at:
Station Hospital, Fort Di x, New Jersey, January 2, 1941 - September 1941
Overseas in Iceland, England, and France, September 1941 - November 1945
Percy Jones General Hospital, Battle Creek, MI, November 1945 - November 1947
Transfer from Regular Army ANC to Active Reserves ANC-USAR, November 1947
Chief Nurse, 325th General Hospital, USAR, Kansas City, MO, September 1951- August 1953
Chief Nurse, 323rd General Hospital, USAR, Detroit, MI, August 1953 - July 1975

Received the Meritorious Service Award Medal upon retirement on July 21, 1975

Revolutionary Ancestor: Private Jacob Truax, New York

LIEUTENANT MARY HURD HENNE, SC U.S. Naval Reserve
1922 - 2006
July 1944 - June 1946
Served Our Country as a WAVE at the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.

Revolutionary Ancestors:

Private Samuel Fletcher, Maine
Mariner and Patriot Lynde Champion, Connecticut
Private Fields Coombs, Massachusetts
Private and Corporal John Ford, Massachusetts
Ensign Jesse Holbrook, Massachusetts
Private Benajah Dunham, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Private Oliver Boynton, Massachusetts
Private and Patriot Josiah Phelps, Massachusetts
Private John Boynton, Massachusetts

LIEUTENANT CAROLYN SUE FRANCIS GENDRON U.S. Navy
December 1988 - December 1999

Served Our Country in Florida, California, Maryland, and Japan.

Earned a graduate degree in Material Logistics at the Naval Postgraduate School.

Revolutionary Ancestor:
Patriot Michael Shofner, Sr., North Carolina

PATRICIA ANN DRURY, Master Sgt. United States Army Reserve
Ret. 2010

Revolutionary Ancestor:
Private Phillip Drury, Patriotic Service, Maryland

VETERAN SERVICES

The Piety Hill Chapter, NSDAR, generously gives money annually to the

John D. Dingell Medical Center (Veterans' Memorial Hospital) in Detroit.

In addition, throughout the year, our members collect and deliver supplies

and items for personal use and for recreation.

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