Last surviving female World War I veteran dies aged 109

I don't normally do obits, but I feel this is definitely worth reporting.

The St Petersburg Times, reports the death of the last surviving female World War I veteran, "a refined Civil War buff who met with the Secretary of the Navy to fight for women in the military."

Charlotte Winters died Tuesday (March 27, 2007) at a nursing home near Boonsboro in northwest Maryland. She was 109.

In 1916, Mrs. Winters met with Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels to persuade him to allow women in the service, said Kelly Auber, who grew up on
South Mountain, where Mrs. Winters and her husband, John Winters, settled.

When the Navy opened support roles to women, Mrs. Winters and her sister, Sophie, joined immediately in 1917