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Colonel Joseph Winston Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) hosted the Forsyth County Joint Meeting of the DAR on Nov. 9, at Unity Moravian Church in Lewisville. 

There were 77 individuals in attendance including daughters (the name members of the DAR use to refer to themselves), the women of the Unity Moravian Church (Unity) Women’s Fellowship, and men from the Men’s Fellowship of Unity.

The speaker for the program was Ann Holben Zuhr, Holben’s daughter. 

Zuhr used music, dress (she wore her mother’s uniform) and first-person account to tell “Margery Moore’s story of her service as a WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilot).”

The DAR website gives a brief story of the award winners. The following is the DAR account of Margery Moore: 

“Margery Moore became interested in aviation and received her private pilot license on April 4, 1942. She became part of the fourth class of WASP – Women Airforce Service Pilots and finished training in August 1943. WASP had various jobs. Margery was assigned to Camp Davis, N.C., and later to Camp Stewart, Georgia. In both places, she towed targets for anti-aircraft gunnery training. The WASP were civil service, not military. In December 1944, Congress shut down the WASP program. By then she had flown over 895 hours according to her WASP flight logbook. WASP were recognized as military veterans in 1977 and received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2009. Her daughter and DAR member Ann Zuhr presented a program dressed in her mother’s WASP uniform at which time the award was presented.”