Grand Marshal’s Big Day: Leading Conn. Parade, Turning 105

WESTPORT, Conn. (AP) — It’s an additional grand day for the grand marshal of Westport’s Memorial Day parade: It is her a hundred and fifth birthday.

Jean Wells, who served within the U.S. Coast Guard Ladies’s Reserve in World Warfare II, stated she’s “deeply grateful” to be chosen to steer Monday’s parade within the Connecticut neighborhood she’s known as residence since grade faculty.

William Vornkahl, the president of the Westport Veterans Council, informed Hearst Connecticut Media that selecting Wells match with this 12 months’s theme of Honoring Ladies Veterans.

Wells was born in Indiana on Might 30, 1917, as World Warfare I used to be raging in Europe, and moved to Westport in 1926. She enlisted within the Ladies’s Reserve in 1943 and served on the U.S. Naval Particular Hospital in Palm Seaside, Florida.

She’s volunteered in the neighborhood for many years, visiting with veterans and bringing meals to the needy. She’s additionally volunteered with the Crimson Cross and Norwalk Hospital.

“Jean is a bouncing ball,” Vornkahl stated.

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