About Us
Chapter Officers 2023—2025
Regent | Stacey Bassett |
First Vice Regent | Lori Fallace |
Second Vice Regent | Beverly Mediate |
Chaplain | Joanne Whitener |
Recording Secretary | Melody Cavicchi |
Corresponding Secretary | Gayle Lovato |
Treasurer | Sheila Ralph |
Assistant Treasurer | Erin Smith |
Registrar | Katherine Nowlin |
Historian | |
Librarian | Courtney Taliaferro |
Parliamentarian | Kecia Brown |
“On April 5, 1950, twelve organizing members, with a goodly company of interested women, met … to perfect the organization of Ketoctin Chapter NSDAR, the first such organization ever to be in Loudoun County, based not alone upon pride of ancestry, but which endeavors to preserve the heritage of freedom and opportunity, procured by the labors and sacrifices of those ancestors.” ~ Martha McComb, Founding Regent
Whitehall Estate, location of the first Ketoctin Chapter NSDAR meeting, and home of founding Regent, Martha K. McComb.
Organizing Officers & Charter Members
Organizing Members | Charter Members |
Martha K. McComb, Regent | Mary H. Armstrong |
May Lodge Ball, Vice Regent | Helen D. Bosley |
Helen M. Pancoast, Recording Secretary | Josephine Cooksey |
Matilda C. Grille, Treasurer | Arleigh C. Crooker |
Katherine F. Hirst, Registrar | Bessie M. Hackley |
Margaret C. Brown | Dorothy I. Hawthorne
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Nannie S. M. Cockey | Louise P. Hawthorne |
Martha O. Cockerill | Catherine Head |
Martyne B. Kidd | Margaret Jacobs |
Dixie L. Lake | Dorthea E. Kamp |
Louise I. Sprague | Lillian M. Kirkwood |
Maidlin I. Virts (Buckner) | Marie L. Main |
| Louis-Deane Mayer |
| Maizie McFarland |
Past Regents
1950-1952—Martha K. McComb | 1985-1987—Janet M. Reed |
1952-1954—Mariel L. Main | 1987-1989—Mary K. Hubbard |
1954-1956—Louise P. Hawthorne | 1989-1993—Joan B. Shelton |
1956-1959—Eleanor S. Akin | 1993-1995—Victoria B. (Raabe) Daly |
1959-1961—Eula T. Warner | 1995-1997—Jacqueline E. Moison |
1961-1963—Nell W. Grove | 1997-1999—Marian B. Sweet |
1963-1965—Louise I. Sprague | 1999-2002—Terri A. Coleman |
1965-1966—Helen D. Bosley | 2002-2004—Gail A. Adams |
1966-1967—Hazel T. Allyn | 2004-2006 —Patricia H. Miller |
1967-1969—Patience A. Purcell | 2006-2008—Wanda G. English |
1969-1971—Louise P. Hawthorne | 2008-2010—Joan A. Whitener |
1971-1973 —Shirley L. Rucker | 2010-2012—Teresa M. McCarthy |
1973-1975—Kathryn S. Mackey | 2012-2013—Terri A. Coleman |
1975-1977—Mary B. “Bennie” Lightner | 2013-2014—Carri N. Casserino
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1977-1979—Eula T. M. Warner | 2014-2016—Susan Wight |
1979-1981—Marguerite S. Hutchinson | 2016-2018—Susannah Harding |
1981-1983—Clara C. Parham | 2018-2020—Sandra Hodges |
1983-1985—Judith L. Lindsay | 2020-2022—Kecia Brown |
| 2022-2023—Nancy Watford |