VOM – April 2024
Candice E. Ganser U.S. Navy 1997 – 2023 A native of Apalachin, New York, Candice enlisted in the Navy in August 1997. She completed bootcamp at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, then attended Seaman “A” School. In November 1997, she reported onboard USS CAMDEN (AOE-2), homeported in Bremerton, Washington.
VOM – November 2023
Georgia Kathrine Desjarlais U.S. Navy Born in Chattanooga, Tenn., to Lowell and Lucy Lawson, Kathy was raised in Fayette County, where she joined the Navy at 17, shortly before graduating from high school. Since Hospital Corpsman “A” school “female billets” were filled for the near future, Kathy signed up for
VOM – August 2025
Sami Lynn Phillips U.S. Navy 1978 – 2020 Retired Navy Chief Petty Officer Sami Lynn Phillips was born on Oct. 29, 1960, in Elgin, Illinois. After her June 1978 graduation from Palatine High School in Palatine, IL, she joined the Navy Delayed Enlistment Program and turned eighteen during bootcamp at
VOM – July 2025
Valarie R. Bennett U.S. Navy 1966 – 2004 Valarie was born in May 1966 in Tuskegee, Ala., the third of her mother’s four children. The name on her birth certificate was Blank Blank Bennett, a common way to complete a birth certificate for a baby not expected to survive. Eighteen years
VOM – March 2019
Victoria Outlaw-Coone US Marine Corps, 1981-1987 Born and raised in Alabama, by the age of seventeen Vickie knew she wanted to leave Alabama and felt that joining the Army would provide that opportunity. However, once she arrived at the recruitment center and saw the Marine recruiter in his dress blues,
VOM – February 2020
Renea McBride U.S. Navy 1989-1998 The Tipton County Museum Veteran of the Month for February 2020 is Renea Antoinette McBride. Renea was born on March 14, 1971, in Brownsville, Tennessee. A few months after graduating from high school in 1989 she travelled to Memphis to enlist in the United States
VOM – May 2017
Elizabeth Marge Scott US Marine Corps, 1953-1954 Scott honored as first woman Veteran of the Month By Sherri Onorati, Special to The Leader Just five short years after the first eight American women were sworn in as regular Marines in 1948, the Tipton County Museum Veteran of the Month for
VOM – January 2020
Sherri Lyn Onorati U.S. Navy 1984-2006 The Tipton County Museum Veteran of the Month for January 2020 is Sherri Lyn Onorati. Sherri was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on February 24, 1966, the first-born of David Panchaud, a Bermudian who had just moved to the United States two years earlier and
VOM – March 2022
Linda Coffield U.S. Navy 1970-2018 Born in 1951 in Buffalo, New York (NY), Linda spent her early years in Williamsville, NY. She graduated from Williamsville South High School in 1969 and joined the Navy in 1970. She planned to see the world and to have an adventure – she had
VOM – October 2017
Arline Gorham (12 Nov 1923 – 16 Oct 2023) US Navy, WWII 1945 The Tipton County Veterans Council and the Tipton County Museum, Veterans Memorial and Nature Center are proud to announce the selection of Mrs. Arline Gorham as the Veteran of the Month for October 2017. The year was
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