Members across the nation support their chapters
by helping to organize patriotic events in their communities and at their workplaces. Our California Daughter helped organize a great Memorial Day commemoration at her workplace.
A chapter member makes patriotic lap quilts and presents them to the local Hospice Coordinator for veterans in Hospice care.
Chapter members have shipped hand quilted, knitted, or crocheted baby blankets for babies born to our Army and Air Force troops stationed in Germany.
Area VFW groups sponsor the annual Memorial Day event at the Bandstand in Gypsy Hill Park. The ceremony includes a special speaker and the wreath-laying ceremony, as well as special patriotic music performed by the Stonewall Brigade Band.
Chapter members carry our official DAR banner in Staunton's Veterans Day Parade.
Several members gathered to participate in a recent "Wreaths Across America" at the Staunton National Cemetery.
Prospective member Linda Clemmer found a gravestone of a veteran from her home state of Pennsylvania. She remembered this veteran by saying his name and honored him with a moment of silence. She then left a penny on the headstone so the family and others would know she was there.
Chapter members worked with administrators and teachers of a local elementary school to produce an informative public program and youtube video depicting a Flag Retirement Ceremony. The 4th grade students demonstrated the proper way to dispose of worn flags.
As a Vietnam War Commemorative Partner, we invited Vietnam veterans and guests for a special luncheon June 8, 2021. Members of our chapter as well as other area chapter members served as hostesses for the event.
These men proudly volunteered to stand with the commemorative poster.
Because of COVID, our lunches had to consist of commercially prepared food which was largely donated by community businesses.
Fourth grade students from Bessie Weller Elementary School perform a readers theater to celebrate Constitution Day, a national holiday mandated by the US Congress. This activity was initiated by our chapter with the oversight and coordination of Mary Heishman, the school's technology instructor.
Photo courtesy of Mary Heishman
In recent years, our chapter has marked the grave sites of some of our local Revolutionary soldiers with a ceremony and a memorial plaque.
Member Laten Bechtel, a member of the Augusta County Genealogical Society’s Courthouse Volunteer Group, has spent countless hours in the Augusta County Courthouse organizing, copying, cataloging, and indexing delicate old documents. In order to preserve original records, copies have been made for the use of the public in historical and genealogical research.
Photo Courtesy of Laten Bechtel.
This local high school senior was the chapter's winner of the local and state Constitution Week poster contests. His rendition was recognized as second place national winner at NSDAR's 2019 Continental Congress.
Member Kathe Morrison volunteers as the president of the local Cinderella Project non-profit store which freely outfits area high school teens (girls and boys) from "tip to toe" for their proms.
Photo: fb John Hood
Our chapter has given annual $1000 scholarships to area high school seniors over the past several years.
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