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Captain
Helen Horlacher Evans has been devoted to seeing that women
soldiers receive the recognition that they deserve since she was
selected for Officer Candidate School in the newly created
Womens Army Auxiliary Corps in 1942, which became the Womens Army Corps in 1943. She
served as a captain in WWII from 1942-1946, primarily in the
Food Service Branch of the Army Office of the Quartermaster
General. She
supervised the WAC food service facilities throughout the U.S.
and then went to France and Germany where she helped to feed
troops and prisoners of war.
In the more than 50 years since
WWII, Evans has accumulated an impressive résumé.
Immediately
following the war she was the only woman
senior training officer with the veterans administration.
She has taught school, worked as the administrator of
Friends of KET, and has worked as the director of the Lt.
Governors House in Frankfort, the
Special Projects
Coordinator at the Governors Mansion, she is currently the
administrator of the Vest-Lindsay House.
In addition to these duties, Evans has been a field
representative for the Women in Military Service Memorial at the
entrance to the Arlington National Cemetery and has served as a
volunteer for many organizations and boards.
Learn
more about the Womens Military Memorial.
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