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 Women’s ArmyAuxiliary Corps in 1942, which became the Women’s 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. Governor’s House in Frankfort, the Special Projects Coordinator at the Governor’s 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 Women’s Military Memorial.