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1917 – 1975 · tested whole
The finding: across every source reached, no woman with a Walkerton or Lincoln Township 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, the county Honor List's one woman, whom no record swept ties to Walkerton, South Bend, or Osceola; Alberta A. Adams, attributed "Penn — Mishawaka"; Mary A. Dabros, attributed to South Bend. One fact in the town's own stone keeps the question honest: the 1947 memorial in Woodlawn Cemetery honors "the Valiant Sons, and Daughters, of This Area, Who Served" — the town's mothers, in 1947, counted daughters in the town's service as a matter of course. That women of this town served in the Second World War is therefore as close to certain as the record lets anything be; which women, the records reached do not say. The county veterans index's letters read carry no female name under a Walkerton attribution. The finding is printed at that strength, and its settlers are named in the closing register: the index read whole, and the Independent's and Tribune's service and obituary columns, where the town's servicewomen stand under their own names.
Sources:
- Gold Star Honor Roll (1921), county roll — swept whole; the Lyon entry at boundary.
- War Department, Honor List (1946), via the banked Mishawaka article — the Price entry at boundary.
- St. Joseph County veterans index — letters H, L, M, R, S, W read whole; the Adams and Dabros entries at boundary; no Walkerton-attributed woman found.
- Historical Marker Database, the 1947 Woodlawn memorial inscription — the "Sons, and Daughters" line as erected.