She ran a 24-hour chow hall in Afghanistan. Now she makes sure no veteran is buried alone
Retired Army Staff Sgt. Sheila Y. Anthony, El Paso County’s 2026 Veteran of the Year, turned 22 years of service into a second career of showing up.
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A Civelle Original Series. She served. She evolved. She’s not done.
She fixed diesel engines in the Marines. Now she works at a funeral home
Lora Rolland served in Desert Storm, spent 12 years in uniform and now works at a funeral home in Lodi, California, where a ‘Woman Veteran’ sticker rides on her truck.
She commanded a Coast Guard cutter in a war zone and made history doing it
Holly Harrison became the first woman in Coast Guard history to earn the Bronze Star, for leading the cutter Aquidneck during the Iraq War.