Oldest female US Marine veteran honored

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Poughkeepsie Journal
John W. Barry
August 12, 2014

RHINEBECK – She was born in 1910.

She enlisted in the U.S. Marines in 1943.

And after serving in Hawaii and the Philippines, she was discharged in 1946.

Ruth Milliot of Rhinebeck, while in the service, kept track of personnel records for wounded Marines and those killed in action. A resident of the Thompson House, a nursing home on the campus of Northern Dutchess Hospital and an affiliate of Health Quest in LaGrange, Milliot, 103, is the oldest female Marine veteran in the nation.

On Monday, she was honored by U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, R-Kinderhook, for her military service. The occasion, held in the Thompson House lobby, was also used to draw attention to services available to female military veterans. Milliot, who received the Women's Veterans Challenge Coin, was not available for an interview. But her niece, Dot Milliot, passed along a message from her aunt.
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