Women of the record: none attributed — and two burial leads, printed as leads

1917 – 1945 · tested whole

The finding: across every source reached, no woman with an Osceola or Penn–Osceola home attribution was found in the service records of any war. The county's women of the record stand at boundary and are printed so they are looked for in the right places: Gladys Nancy Lyon, Army nurse, who volunteered from South Bend and died of meningitis in France on 19 December 1918 — South Bend's; 2nd Lt. Catharine R. Price of the Army Nurse Corps (serial N-771240, died non-battle), the county Honor List's one woman, whom no record swept ties to Mishawaka, South Bend, or Osceola; Alberta A. Adams, a private of the Second World War in the county index, attributed "Penn — Mishawaka"; Mary A. Dabros, Navy, attributed to South Bend.

The leads, at lead strength only: the Veterans Affairs burial record carries two servicewomen buried at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens in Osceola — Doris E. Williams (b. 18 August 1914, d. 20 May 1997), U.S. Army, technical sergeant, Second World War; and Margie Marie Dingman (b. 21 January 1924, d. 12 September 1997), U.S. Army, technician fifth grade, Second World War — and a third, Judith Whiteford Smith (1964–2006), U.S. Navy, buried there with no war era stated. Burial in an Osceola cemetery is not a home-of-record attribution, and Chapel Hill draws burials from the whole Mishawaka–Osceola corridor; these women are printed as burial leads whose obituaries are the named settlers — the test that would decide whether either was this town's — and they are entered nowhere in this section as Osceola servicewomen. The incomplete index sweep (closing register) bounds this whole article: a full sweep for female names under Osceola attribution is its other settler.

Sources:

1. Gold Star Honor Roll (1921), county roll — the Lyon entry at boundary.
2. War Department, Honor List (1946), via the banked Mishawaka article — the Price entry.
3. St. Joseph County veterans index, A and D pages — the Adams and Dabros entries at boundary.
4. Veterans Affairs burial records as transcribed (Interment.net, Indiana veterans burials) — the Williams, Dingman and Smith lines, printed as leads.