AMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY UNIT 109

by Mary Elliott

Entry T47 from the History of Hooker County Nebraska
with permission of the Hooker County Historical Society

Legion Auxiliary Color Guard at the Hooker
County Fair parade.

Mullen American Legion Auxiliary was
founded at Mullen, Nebraska on June 28,
1930. The following officers were elected:
President, Lucy Gibson; Vice. Pres., Lessie
Goldizen; Secretary, Marian Luke; Treasur-
er, Elvia Boyer; Historian, Anne Motl; Chap-
lain, Sara Boyer; Sergeant at Arms, Birdeen
Carrier.

On March 12, 1931 the records show that
Mrs. Cleo Campbell wrote the names on the
Charter as follows Elvia M. Boyer, Sara A.
Boyer, Leah Bray, Vallie Bressler, Birdeen C.
Carrier, Mary C. Clutter, Callona Dietrich,
Mae Ridenour, Lucy Gibson, Lessie Goldiz-
en, Amanda Hanson, Clara C. Humphrey,
Clara E. LeHew, Marion Luke, Alice B. Paine
and Zoe Weigardt.

On May 13, 1947 it was moved and
seconded that the Charter be sent to head-
quarters at Lincoln to change the name from
Mullen Unit to Marcy-Upton Unit 109 to
correspond with the Legion Post. The name
of Marcy-Upton was selected in 1933 in
memory of Warren Marcy and Vernon Upton
who gave their lives for their country during
World War I. They were laid to rest in the
Cedarview Cemetery, Mullen, Nebraska.

Women are eligible to belong to the
Auxiliary through the membership of their
husbands, sons, fathers, brothers or grand -
fathers membership to the American Legion.
The purpose of Auxiliary is service. It assists
veterans and their families who are in
hospitals or unable to work. It sells poppies
and other products made by veterans in
hospital work-shops, gives a cheery Christ-
mas to all veterans confined in hospitals and
homes and prevents children from paying in
suffering and lack of opportunity for the
service their fathers gave to our country.
Activities of the Auxiliary in the Mullen
community are the Memorial Day and Vet-
erans day programs, Girls State, community
scholarship, Poppy Day, Memorial Day
decorations and other donations.

Through the years the Legion Auxiliary
has established community center buildings,
worked for good roads, obtained play-
grounds, sponsored units of Camp Fire Girls,
Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and the establish -
ment of libraries. It has remained an active
organization in the Mullen area for over 50
years. At the present time it has 85 members.