article_snippet: The oldest female US veteran, who served in the Pacific the Pacific during World War II, passed away at Lucy Coffle home in Texas at the age of 108.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle was the second oldest veteran in the countrythe country.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle grew up on a farm in Martinsville, Indiana before Lucy Coffle left for Chicago and then Dallas, where Lucy Coffle was working at an A&P supermarket the day Japan dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
article_snippet: Two years later Lucy Coffle, at the age of 37, enlisted in the newly created Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and served in the Pacific.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle, the oldest female US veteran, passed away at Lucy Coffle home in San Antonio at the age of 108 .
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle left Lucy Coffle job at a Dallas grocery store and enlisted at the age of 37 in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 and served in the Pacific the Pacific during World War II .
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle was one of the 400,000 American women who served during the World War II.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle rose to the rank of sergeant and earned two bronze stars, according to USA Today.
article_snippet: After the war Lucy Coffle stayed in Japan for 13 years, working as an Army civilian in Okinawa before Lucy Coffle moved back to Texas.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle worked in a procurement office at an air force base in San Antonio and retired in 1971.
article_snippet: Lucy Coffle (pictured in 2014) looks at a picture of Lucy Coffle taken in Okinawa.
article_snippet: After the war Lucy Coffle stayed in Japan for 13 years and worked as an Army civilian .
highlights_snippet: Lucy Coffle was the second oldest veteran in the country .
  
highlights_snippet: Lucy Coffle enlisted at the age of 37 in the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943 .
  
highlights_snippet: Lucy Coffle served in the Pacific and then worked as an Army civilian in Japan for 13 years after the war ended .
  
highlights_snippet: Lucy Coffle rose to the rank of sergeant and earned two bronze stars .