Oldest female WWII vet visits D.C. monuments

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ADVANCED FOR USE FOR MONDAY, JULY 21, 2014 AND THEREAFTER Lucy Coffey and Queta Marquez, Bexar County veterans service officer, go through pictures taken while Coffey was in Japan. Coffey is the nation’s oldest woman veteran, serving in the procurement office of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. Today, she is 108 years old. A group in Austin wants to send her to Washington for an honor flight and possibly meet with Vice President Biden. Coffey enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and landed in Japan, where she served in the procurement office and worked for 10 years after the war ended. She worked in the procurement office at Kelly from 1958 until her retirement in 1971, and is only a few days younger than America’s oldest male veteran, Richard Overton. (AP Photo/San Antonio Express-News, Helen L. Montoya)**MAGS OUT NO SALES SAN ANTONIO OUT**

WASHINGTON – The nation’s oldest living female World War II veteran has finally made it to Washington to see the monuments and memorials.

Lucy Coffey, now 108, is a veteran of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps during World War II. The corps took her to Japan before she came home and settled in San Antonio.

This weekend, Coffey got to make another trip, this time to see the monuments of the nation’s capital. She flew first-class from San Antonio on a trip arranged in part by an Honor Flight group in Texas.

On Saturday, Coffey visited the World War II Memorial and the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery before heading to the White House for a tour.

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