What is June A. Willenz?
'''June Adele Willenz''' ([[née]] '''Friedenberg'''; December 17, 1924&nbsp;– May 3, 2020) was an American military veterans activist and writer. Willenz was born in [[New York City]]. She was an Executive Director of the [[American Veterans Committee]] (AVC). She was the author of ''Women Veterans: America's Forgotten Heroines'' ([[Continuum International Publishing Group|Continuum]], 1983). Willenz also help build the [[Women in Military Service for America Memorial]] at [[Arlington National Cemetery]]. She was added into the [[Maryland Women's Hall of Fame]] in 2011. Willenz died on May 3, 2020 in [[Bethesda, Maryland]] of a [[heart attack]], aged 95.<ref name=NYT>{{cite news|title=June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/june-willenz-dead.html|first=Katharine Q.|last=Seelye|date=May 24, 2020|access-date=May 24, 2020|newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Willenz, June A.}} [[Category:1924 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from myocardial infarction]] [[Category:American civil rights activists]] [[Category:American political writers]] [[Category:American feminist writers]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{US-bio-stub}}