About Us
Chapter Officers 2022—2025
Regent | Nancy Watford |
First Vice Regent | Stacey Bassett |
Second Vice Regent | Beverly Mediate |
Chaplain | Lori Fallace |
Recording Secretary | Melody Cavicchi |
Corresponding Secretary | Gayle Lovato |
Treasurer | Susan Petrakes |
Assistant Treasurer | Erin Smith |
Registrar | Katherine Nau |
Historian | Linda Knowlton |
Librarian | Susan Howard |
Parliamentarian | Sheila Ralph |
“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 |