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OHIO VETERANS ORGANIZATIONS
 

17th Infantry Regiment
1280 N. Cole Street
Lima, OH  45801
419/228-4421
 

Contact:
Jim Sheldon

Air Force Association
Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
Memorial Chapter
1616 Sienna Lane, N
Columbus, OH  43229
 

American Ex-Prisoners of War
Department of Ohio

35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/372-0788
Fax: 614/372-0789

 

State Commander: 
William Schmidt

American Gold Star Mothers
Mrs. Dorothy Lind
402 S. Hague Ave.
Columbus, OH 43204-3006
614/274-5090
 

Mrs. Dorothy Lind
402 S. Hague Ave.
Columbus, OH 43204-3006
614-274-5090

Mrs. Dorothy Locker

215 Harvard Ave. 
Sidney, OH 45365-8264
937/492-9696

Mrs. Laura Titus
2946 NW Boulevard, #D
Columbus, OH 43221
 

American Legion
Department of Ohio

160 Big Run Road
Delaware, OH 43015
740/362-7478
Fax: 740/362-1429

ohlegion@iwaynet.net
State Commander:
Ed Anderson
Contact: 
Don Lanthorn

American Merchant
Marine Veterans

Ohio Valley Chapter
P. O. Box 62563
Cincinnati, OH  45262-2563

 

Contact:   
Bert Hinds
49 Twin Lakes Drive
Fairfield, OH  45014
513/874-5606

AMVETS
Department of Ohio

1395 E. Dublin Granville Road
Suite 222
Columbus, OH  43229
614/431-6990
Fax:  614/431-6991
1-800-OH-AMVET
 

State Commander:
Richard Piscione
Contact: 
George Ondick

Army and Navy Union USA, Inc.
Department of Ohio
528 A Canton Road
Akron, Ohio 44312
330/798-0880
Fax: 330/798-0890
 

State Commander: 
Raoul E. Helwig

Blinded Veterans Association
477 H Street, Northwest
Washington, DC  20001-2694
202/371-8880
 

Ohio Chapter of the
B
lue Star Mothers of
America, Inc.

Department of Ohio
 

Contact:    
Ms. Susan Tucker
490 S. Broadway
Geneva, OH 44041
440-466-0407

Catholic War Veterans
Department of Ohio
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215=2541
Suite 402
Office:  614/221-7601         
Fax: 614/221-0278
ohiocwv@bright.net
 

State Commander: 
Nick Wawrzyniak
Contact:  
Arminda C. Crawford, Exec. Director
Jerry Stine, Office Manager

China-Burma-India
Veterans Association

Columbus Basha
3125 Bembridge Road
Columbus, OH  43221-2203

 

Contact:  
Wesley Furste, M.D.
Art Sprankel

China-Burma-India
Veterans Association

Department of Ohio
825 Brookfield Road
Kettering, OH  45429

 

Contact:    
Theodore H. Price, P.N.C.
Adjutant/Finance Officer

Cleveland Lutheran
Veterans Club

4100 Franlin Blvd.
Cleveland, OH  44113
 

Coalition of Retired
Military Veterans

P. O. Box 13064
Akron, OH  44334
330/668-2205
 

Contact:
LTC George P. Manos, Exec. Secretary

Destroyer Escort
Sailors Association

Ohio Chapter
1108 Jackson Street
Greenville, OH  45331-1190

 

Contact:  
Richard Herron

Disabled American Veterans
Department of Ohio
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/221-3582
Fax: 614/221-4822
 

State Commander: 
Herman W. Morton
Contact:
Frank Williams

Disabled Veterans Association
20800 Center Ridge Road
Ste LL38
Rocky River, Ohio 44116
866-331-1944
 
Executive Director:
Pamela Seman

Governor's Advisory
Committee on Women
Veterans

77 South High Street, 30th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/644-0898
 

Contact:
Karen Kish

Jewish War Veterans
5519 Naiche Road
Columbus, OH 43213
 

State Commander:
Dr. Arthur Kamlet

 

Korean War Veterans
Association, Inc
.
Department of Ohio
35 E. Chestnut St., 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/225-0530
kwvahoh@msn.com
 

President:
Michael E. Mahoney

Marine Corps League
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215

614/469-1775
Fax: 614/469-5674
 

Commandant:
Roger Gardner 419-395-1605
Adjutant: 
Kenneth Lee 440-275-1079

Medina County Women
of the Military
P.O. Box 1812
Medina, OH 44258-8393
 
Military Officers Association
of America

(formerly TROA)
President: 
LT Chuck Kenny (USN Ret.)
8714 Weller Road
Cincinnati, Ohio 45249

Military Order of
the Purple Heart

Department of Ohio 
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/228-8250
Fax:  614/228-7290

moph-dept-ohio@worldnet.att.net
 

Commander:
Mel Heis (513-673-5656)

37th Division
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/228-3788

 

Contact:  
Ross Nigro, President
614/846-3536

NAM-POWS, Inc.
Capt. Robert Doremus, USN, Ret.
2757 Elm Avenue
Bexley, OH  43209
614/237-9908
FAX: 503/210-8399
 

Navy League of
the United States

P. O. Box 09531
Columbus, OH  43209-9531

Contact:      
Council President
Joel M. Hart 614/318-4417

Capt. Roy Girod (USN Ret.)
614/451-3696

 

Ohio Chapter MIA/POW
P. O. Box 14853
Columbus, OH  43214
614/451-2405
 

State Coordinator: 
Liz Flick

Ohio Chapter of The Eighth
Air Force Historical Society

568 Colima Drive
Toledo, OH  43609

 

Contact:    
Roger Dlaib
1440 Till Ave.
Cincinnati, OH 45231
513-931-4258

Ohio Chapter of D.E. Sailors
1880 Harland Center Road
Collins, OH 44826-9704
 
Contact:  
Roger Garner 419/668-6880

Ohio LST/Amphibs Association
10725 Bell Drive
Newark, OH 43767
740-872-4004
 

Contact:  
Walker Huffman-LST 662, President

Ohio Military Veterans Partnership

Co-Chair:
Marvin Dale, CMSgt., USAF (ret.)
7057 Pineview Drive 
Huber Heights, OH  45424 
937/236-6724   
 
Co-Chair: 
BG Robert L. Lawson, AUS-Ret.   
1196 Thurell Road
Columbus, OH  43229-5124
614/885-0341
 

Ohio National Guard Association
P. O. Box 8070
Columbus, OH  43201
 

Ohio Veterans Home
3416 Columbus Avenue
Sandusky, OH  44870
419/625-2454
 

Director:   
Christine M. Cook 

Paralyzed Veterans of America
Buckeye Chapter
25100 Euclid Avenue, Suite 117
Cleveland, OH  44117
216/731-1017 or 1-800/248-2548
FAX: 216/731-6404
 

President:  
Robert Burtin, Jr., or Mary Mihalic

Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, Inc.
4767 Sycamore St.
Elida, OH  45807
 

Ohio State Chairman:
Jim Welker, 419/339-9432

Polish Legion of American Veterans
6005 Fleet Avenue
Cleveland, OH  44105
216/441-1222 (answering machine only)
 

State Commander: 
Michael Polichuk
4230 West 22nd Street
Cleveland, OH 44109 
440/260-0116
 

Rainbow Division Veterans Association
4143 Karl Road, Unit 111
Columbus, OH  43224
 

Secretary/Treasurer:  
James Spruance      

The Rakkasans
187th Airborne R.C.T.
Buckeye Chapter
344 Waterford St.
Akron, OH 44314-3650
330/848-3136
 

Contact:
LtCol James E. Hoeh, President

Rangers Battalions
World War II

Ohio Valley Chapter 6
Box 15
Boscom, OH  44809
419/937-2383
 

President:  
Arron W. Cool

The Retired Enlisted
Association
Chapter 111
Buckeye
P.O. Box 2955
Akron, OH 44309
330/687-1260
Contact:
Larry Fitzgerald

The Retired Officers
Association of the
United States

Col. Robert F. Thompson, USA (ret.)
Director,  Government Relations 
4294 Janwood Drive   
Copley, OH  44321-1304      
330/836-7526
 

Contact:
Colonel Parker E. Reed, USAF (Ret.) President, Ohio Council of Chapters
The Retired Officers Association
71 East 197th Street
Euclid, OH  44119-1001
216/486-2984 

Seabee Veterans of America
Ohio Department, Island X-1
1 Wooster Place
Oxford, OH  45056                         
513/523-8842
 

Contact:
Jim Lipnickey

Sons of Union Veterans
6917 Avon Drive
Darbydale, OH  43123
 

Contact:  
John Duncan

Third Armored Division Association
306 Pinney Drive
Worthington, OH  43085
614/885-8796
 

Contact:
Bill Ruth

Tuskegee Airmen
Mr. Harold E. Sawyer                                    
1870 Greenway Avenue    
Columbus, OH  43219       
614/252-1992
 

President:
Mr. Robert L. Peeples
1692 Elaine Road    
Columbus, OH  43227
614/237-2052

Ukrainian American Veterans
Post 24
2822 Park Dr.
Parma, OH  44134
440/843-9943
 

National Commander: 
Bohdan Samokyssyn

Underage Veterans of the USA
1765 Coonpath Road, NW
Lancaster, OH  43130
740/653-4721
 

Contact:  
Ed Arthur 

USS Columbus Veterans Association
1163 Manor Drive
Columbus, OH  43232-1640
614/575-2110
 

Contact:  
Gerald Watson  

Veterans of Foreign Wars
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/224-1838
Fax: 614/224-3861

 

State Commander: 
Roger Frye
Contact:  
Robert Funk

Veterans of the Vietnam
War, Inc.

1267 U. S. 42
Ashland, OH  44805
419/289-0154
 

State Commander: 
Bob Minnear

Vietnam Veterans of America
Buckeye Council
35 E. Chestnut Street, 4th Floor
Columbus, OH  43215
614/228-0188
Fax: 614/228-2711
                   
Capital City
Chapter-Columbus  670
 
PO Box 2555, Columbus, OH 43216

 

State President:
Thomas R. Burke

WAVES National  
2024 Leisure Road, NW
Minerva, OH  44657-8806 
330/868-7634

National President:  
Barbara Turner                      
9105 Shoshone Trail
Flower Mound, TX 75022-7040
817-491-4555

State Director:  
Ruby Gilliam
 

West Point Society of
Central Ohio

7620 Olentangy River Road, Ste #201
Columbus, OH  43235
614/848-7620
 

Contact:  
Robert D. Setzer

Women's Army Corps
Veterans Association
Chapter 3 - Columbus

Vice President: 
Betty W. Brown
5441 Walshire Drive
Columbus, OH  43232
614/863-5237

President: 
Darlene Hemmingsen
2577 Hillgaill Road
Pataskala, OH  43062
740-964-2886
 

Women Marines
Association OH-2
1107 Columbus Ave
Barberton, OH 44203A
Contact:  
Ellen Leidy, President
Elva Pounders, Vice President
330-603-0676

Women Veterans (WIMSA)

Contact:  
Lynn Ashley, Ed.D.
811 Hanson Drive
Forest Park, OH  45240
513/742-5218

Jean Madden 
44 Pocono Road
Worthington, OH  43235
614/846-7866
 

World Federation of
Hungarian Veterans

9391 Hilo Farm Drive
Kirtland Hills, OH  44060
216/842-6431
                                          
(Some American veterans, some
veterans of the Hungarian national
forces)
 

President:  
John Korossy, Jr.

World War I Veterans
c/o 864 Kingsford Road
Columbus, OH  43204-1018
614/276-1585

 

Acting Quartermaster:  
Jackie L. Starr        

Governor's Office of Veterans' Affairs • 77 South High Street • Columbus, OH 43215 • 614-644-0898

URL: http://www.veteransaffairs.ohio.gov
Information as accurate as available. The State of Ohio disclaims liability for any errors or omissions.

 

Governor's Office of Veterans' Affairs • 77 South High Street • Columbus, OH 43215 • 614-644-0898

URL: http://www.veteransaffairs.ohio.gov
Information as accurate as available. The State of Ohio disclaims liability for any errors or omissions.