Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy Society

Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy Society recognizes special individuals and couples who have included The National World War II Museum in their estate plans. These gifts support our mission to preserve and share the history of the American experience during World War II. The Museum would like to thank these Legacy Society members for their generous support. 

Nearly three decades after Ambrose’s original vision to build a national D-Day museum, the National World War II Museum stands as a testament to his epic dream. Now, you can forever be a part of this legacy.

You become part of this distinguished group when you include The National World War II Museum in your will, trust, retirement plan, life insurance, or create a life-income gift.

Download our Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy brochure.

Let us know!

Please let us know if you’ve included a gift for The National World War II Museum. Providing us with documentation is the best way to ensure that your gift is used in the way you intend.

As a member of Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy Society, you will receive:

Recognition on a Donor Wall in the Museum and in our Annual Report (with your permission)

Invitations to special events and programs

The reassurance that you are defending freedom for future generations by keeping the lessons of WWII alive

Our Legacy Society Members


Maj. Michael Abrams,
USAF (Ret.)

Brian and Donna Ace

Ron and Karen Adams

Barbara S. Akins
IMO Donald S. Akins

Fred and Ida Aquilina

Frank Arian

Robert J. and Maureen R. Avina
IMO & IHO Robert C. Bogash and Charles W. Hendershott

Mary N. Bailey
IMO G. C. Bailey

Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Bailey

Alfred J. Barbano Jr.
IMO Irene R. Barbano

David D. Barrett

Jerilyn Batina
Marikay Batina
IMO Jerome R. Batina

Eugene Becker
Thomas Becker and Cheryl Hart

Justin M. Bein

James and Peggy Beisner

Ronald A. Bell

James A. Beshai

David Wesley Ewell Black, MAJ, USA (Ret.)

B.J. and Becky Bowers

Christopher Brancato

Edward Brayman and Sparre Strand
IMO Dean Strand, Leroy Strand, and Donald L. Brayman

Robert and Lenore Briskman

Charles Neil Bullock
IMO Charles Brantley Bullock, WWII Seabee, Mt. Olive, NC

Jeff and Amy Burg

Mr. and Mrs. William W. Busch

Captain Carroll J. Campbell

Nicolette Cardillo
IMO Nicholas William Cardillo and John Lattanzio

Candace Caylor
IMO Donald Caylor

Alfred J. and Jamie P. Chilson

James F. Clarke

David Cole

Susan and Gerald Connor
IMO Joseph A. Ballard, USMC

Jim Cooney

Steven R. and Laura A. Corbett

Cathy Cosenza
IMO Corporal Louis A. Cosenza, USMC, WWII

Mr. and Mrs. Dave Cowan

Gail P. Cox
IMO Everett A. Smith, Pvt.,
11th Airborne Service, WWII

Michael and Catherine Crane

Bryan Culp

Thomas M. Czekanski

Arthur Q. Davis Jr.

Susan Demorsky
IMO Walter Demorsky

Allen E. Dewitt
IMO Alvin E. and
Geraldine K. Dewitt

Ray Doss

Wm. Craig Dubishar

Walter H. Duke Jr.

Michael A. Ehrman

Gretchen S. Ellis

Roland C. Emmanuele

Patricia “Trish” Eubanks

Ronald Falciano

Charles Faught

Dawn Ilene Faulkner

Gladys Feijoo

Col. & Mrs. Thomas G. Fierke, USA

Paul Forde
IMO John McAllister Forde

Jay H. Frankel

Nancy J. Fraze
IMO CPL Weldon F. Kocher

Peter N. French

George T. Froming

Norman and Margaret Gauthreaux

Ted Gerber

Alisa and Jon Giulietti

Stephen Glassey
IMO Maj. John R. Glassey

Nancy M. Goettman
IMO Father 2nd Lt. Andrew T. Goettman, Navigator B-17 Bomber

Christine M. Gray
IMO Wesley N. Pettigrew

Dr. and Mrs. Clarence S. Greene Jr.

Karen J. Greene
IMO Sgt. Donald Thomas Greene

Glenn Greenwell

Jack R. Gross
IMO SSgt. Herbert Gross

Dr. Alicia Hahn and
Mr. Scott Hahn
IMO Laura A. Hinrichs

Carol Halicki

Thomas and Charlene Hand

Michiel J. Hanou

Ned J. Hart

Nancy L. Hartman

Sharon K. and Terry O. Hartshorn

Michael G. Harwood
IMO Jason David Harwood

Mr. & Mrs. Robert T. Hayes

Ned and Mary Haylett

Don Heidrich

Ross R. Hempstead

David Martin Hendrick and
Stephanie Nigh Hendrick

Edward J. Hill

Madlyn and Paul Hilliard

Nelson S. Hoffman

Kristine Homan

Jordan Hornstein

Joseph and Carda Horton
IMO Bernard Horton, Aron Seibel, and Oliver P. Baughman

Michael F. Huebner, LTC, USA (Ret.) & Carol A. Huebner, COL, USA (Ret.)
IHO and IMO our Fathers Floyd C. Huebner, USA WWII and Alfred J. Isaac, USN WWII

Richard and Wanda Hurd

Col. Richard Hutchins, USAF

(Ret.)

William J. Hyde

Michael C. Jacobi

Jeffrey Jacobson

Louise M. James

Tyrone M. Jamison
IMO David S. Moore

Charles L. and Janet K. Jarvie

David and Patricia Jernigan

William and Story John

Byron R. Johnson
IHO Major Thomas R. Johnson
Jr. and 1st Lt. Stewart

Kenneth Johnson

Arthur T. Jones

Rodger and Deborah Jones
IMO Rodger Wayne Jones, WWII

Jeffrey Jordan

Paul Bernard Karas

Drs. Peter and Candance

Kissinger

Dot Klock

Robert and Mary Ann Koncz

Luke Kontgas

Michael R. Korber

Gretchen D. Krueger

Victor Harold Krulak Jr.

Gary J. Kuhar

Peter Lang

Roy H. Larner Jr.

Cheryl Laser

Leo Laskowski

Mrs. Henry (Louise) A. Leander

Oscar Lewis

Tim and Elizabeth Lewis
IMO Floyd B. Lewis and Ralph Wilson

Stephen and Cindy Linder

John S. and Cynthia J.

Lindstedt

Mr. Lou Linxwiler

Sherry A. Lowry

Kearby Lyde

Anthony and Claudia Madrigale
IMO SGT Anthony J. Madrigale, US Army

Mr. & Mrs. James W. Maerz
IMO Philip Edmund Allen, PFC

Louis Magnotti
IMO William Magnotti

Jane Mance

Dr. & Mrs. Michael R. Matson

Thomas and Susan May

Patricia F. Mayfield
IMO Earl Everett Mayfield Sr., US Army, WWII

George A. McCalpin

Adrianne McClenton

Robert and Susan McCollum

Robert E. McWhirter

George Meierhofer Jr.
IMO George F. Meierhofer, WWII Veteran

Suzanne and Michael Mestayer

Richard and Lynn Meyers

IMO WWII Veterans Douglas

W. McIlhenney and Lt. Commander James J. Meyers

Hebert Miller and Heide Netherton

Dr. Judith A. Monte

Carole A. Montre-Sand

Glenn A. Mueller

David E. Nagle
IMO Edward G. Nagle

Dr. Michael J. Napoliello

Myrtis and Robert Nims

Lawrence Nothdurft
IMO Milton H. (Funny) Nothdurft

Joseph O’Dowd and Diana Maria Alcazar-O’Dowd

Cheryl Oliver
IMO John Everett Oliver Jr.

Scott and Lynne Olsen

Jane and Ronald L. Olson

Eileen Owsiany

Carol Palmisano

Mary B. Parker
IMO Robert B. Parker

James C. Parrie and Sheila J. Parrie

IHO Cpl. William Kenyon, RAF

Jeanne E. Parsons
IMO Edgar A. “Bud” Parsons,
USA “The Fighting 69th”

Drs. David J. and Marti E. Peck
IMO 1st Lt. Clifford J. Peck,
USAAF 111th TRS–KIA Sicily 1945

Aimee Pergalsky

William and Nancy Perocchi
IMO CAPT Andrew Haldane, USMC

Mary W. Pless

Lewis A. Post

Kelley Price

Mr. Robert Prior

Diane Reese

IMO A. Willard Reese

Garth T. Reid

Marlene G. Reinecke
IMO Walter M. Reinecke

Darla K. Renbarger

Thomas N. Robinson

Sylvia Tauzy Rodriguez-Schwarz

Mary Anne Rohde
IMO Stephen D. Rohde

Paul D. Ross Jr.

Mr. and Mrs. William K. Rowe

Urban G. Rump

Andrew Salmon and Judy Johnson

Rick K. Scheffel

Joanne M. Schivley

Jean Schlenker

Dr. Gwen Schneider

John Seck

Joseph G. Seck

Robert E. Severson Jr. & Mary

R. Severson Trust
IMO Robert E. Severson Sr.
and John W. Schild

Arthur R. Sharp

Dr. Margaret A. Sharp
IHO Staff Sergeant David
Sharp, WWII Veteran

Beth K. Shaw

Robert V. Siebel

Marc and Cathy Smith

Mr. & Mrs. Reagan C. Smith

Saundra & Peter Spilotro
IMO Herbert H. Macknick

Gail and David Spivack

IMO Robert Gates DeWeese

William J. Stafford
IMO William H. Stafford, Lt. Col.

Betsy A. Standafer
IMO David Veter, John Frederick Hoppes, and Robert DeVore

Mr. and Mrs. Brian P. Stanley

James V. Steffan

George Stemmons

Frank and Paulette Stewart

Richard G. Stoddard

Val and Julie Stokes

Ward Sullivan

George E. Talarski

Dr. Sharon Estill Taylor

Taube Family

Thomas C. Terrell III

Gary and Linda Thomas

Lovick P. Thomas VI, MD, FACR
IMO Major Lovick P. Thomas V

Jeri L. Tillman

Nathan L. Todd

Joseph and Rhonda Trader

James and Pattie Tye

Florence T. Upson
IMO David Richardson Upson

Clare G. Vanderbeek

Vincent Vasil
IMO Major Leon N. Vasil

Dr. Mayme Kathy Volanty
IMO Blaine L. Hufnagle

Karen Walk
IMO Dr. Gene Geisert

Bruce E. Wamsley

Curt S. Wary and

Kathleen R. Vogt

Keith Wentzell

Col. Hugh West and Mrs. Lauren West
IMO Seymour Schertz

Kent Westmoreland
IMO George and Margaret Westmoreland

Ronald and Kathy Whitcomb

Cherry Whitley

Christine T. Whitman

Dr. Tyron S. Wieland

Chris and Susan Williamson
IMO Susan H. Williamson

Frank G. Wilson
IMO Charles Wilson Jr., 282
Combat Engineer Battalion

Turner Wingo and Gloria Wingo

Col. William G. Yarborough

Ronald M. Yarrington

Hank Zachry

Herbert Zinn

And Five Donors Who Wish to

Remain Anonymous

We remember with special gratitude the individuals whose legacy gifts to The National WWII Museum have been realized.

The 801st 492nd Bombardment Group Association

The 86th ‘Black Hawk’ Infantry Division Organization, Inc.

Anne Anthony
IMO Robert J. Hanbury

Patricia Ann Jean Barile
IHO her parents, Antheny A. and Ethel T. Barile

John and Virginia Bettencourt

Sylvia Bezek

Thomas J. Billings

Rita Mary Bobin

Robert Stevenson Boyd

Abdon J. and Mary Eileen Bray

Richard L. Brown

CCS USN Pearl Harbor 1941
& Signing of Treaty 1945

Robert Burness

Waldo C. and Arabelle J. Burnett

Edward P. Camp

Daniel Castner

CBI Veterans-California Group

Judith K. Chamberlin

Robert Oliver Cole and Lucille Bishop Cole

Marjorie Monroe Colomb

Margaret V. Colvin

Josephine Comodo

Jo Ann Corey

Leslie H. Cox
IMO 2nd LT. Howard L. Cox Jr.,
USAAC (1924–1944)

Dixie L. Cranford

Robert W. Dannelley

Betty B. Dettre
IHO Major General Rexford H. Dettre Jr.

Richard Dorney

Arthur J. Elchek

Nathan S. Elder

Erwin Charles Ellerbeck Jr.

Carol L. and A.H. Feige Jr.

Carolyn Davis Fernandez
IMO Capt. Julian M. Fernandez

Bertram E. Fetter

Henry and Audrey
Fontcuberta

Captain and Mrs. John Ford

Jean Hirsch Frank
IMO Charles W. Frank Jr., WWII Veteran

Dayton G. Geary

Jerome Gewirtz

Dr. Morris W. Goldberg

Peter Gordon Gray and Julaine Roy Gray

John H. Griffith II, US Merchant Marine

William R. and

Dorothy W. Griffiths

Jewell Watson Grima
IMO Thomas J. Grima

Thaddeus Gruszecki

Col. Carolyn A. Guertin (Ret.)

Henry Francis Gurney

Ruth Henrietta Haase
IMO Calvin (Kelly) Haase

George Robert Hamrdla

Fiske Hanley II

Aaron M. “Rick” Harris

Judy Harris

Lawrence C. Harris

Jackie Hollis Henderson

Genevieve G. Higgins

Laura A. Hinrichs

Anita Mae Hirsh

William and Norma Hise

Grace O’Connor Hogan

Harry H. Howard

William Daniel Huddleston

Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Jaffe

Raymond Gene Jensen

Raymond C. Johnson

Sophia Kallelis
IMO her husband Theodore S. Kallelis

Jackie M. Kasten

Sidney Katz

Carol R. Kemmerer

Col. Richard Adrian Kennison

Charles R. Kilbourne

Paul J. Kranick
IMO Frank E. Kranick, MIA 1945

Raymond J. Kress

H.W. Lay

Lt. Col. Richard J. Lees, Ret.

Don and Marilyn C. Lien

Colin C. Livingston and
Beverly Livingston

Barbara Moller Lyons
IMO John Guise Lyons, Lt. Commander, WWII

Dr. George D. Malkasian

Lucille Marottoli

George McCalpin

McDaniel Family Trust
IMO Mary C. McDaniel

Larry McQuern

Janet L. Merrill

Violet S. Michaels
IMO Anthony Michaels

Manderson Miles Sr. & Joseph S. Miles

Ruth Mitick
IMO LTC Stanley R. Mitick Jr., USAF (Ret.)

Arthur Jewel Moore

Charles R. Murray

Rose P. Murray

Robert M. Noonan Jr.

Mark P. Norman

Cdr. and Mrs. Henry O’Connor, USNR

Tonda L. Olson

Patricia Palmer

John U. Parolo

Mr. Felicien “Gus” Perrin

Robert C. Pharher
IMO Irving Harry Pharher

Julian M. Pleasants, PhD

Mary Hom Quan

Maria J. Raffa

William and Marnette Ragon

Ellis T. Reed

Sophie B. Reed
IHO Chief Warrant Officer

Harold J. Reed

Mr. & Mrs. Kevin P. Reilly Sr.

Leonard T. ReVeal

Roger Reynolds

Noah Riley

Richard J. Rinebolt

Leora and Joseph Ritter

Mildred Rogers

Gordon and Ann Rosen

Ida M. Rucklos

Clifford J. Rutstein

Charles A. Sarahan

Harold W. Schluenz

Harold M. Schubert

Jack M. Schwartz

Lloyd F. Scott and Ann B. Scott

Abraham Z. and Norma Shanzer

Kathe A. Shields

Sharyn Robbins Silverstein

Nancy Singer

Betty Gilbert Sisson

Thomas and Mary Rose Slattery

Richard Paul Smyers

Marianne K. St. Claire
IMO Col. William K. St. Claire

Stuart X. Stephenson Jr.

James H. Stone

Margaret M. Suszko

Allan Vincent Tait

Mary Joan Taylor

Arthur D. Thomas

Margaret B. Thurlow
IMO YNCM Clinton S. Thurlow Jr.

Mark Anthony Toups

Laurence Hardy Triemer

Georgette “Gigi” Viellion

Harold J. and Rhedora Vietz

Andre Villeneuve

G. Paula Walter

Russell D. Warner

Edward J. Weber

Liselotte Levy Weil
IMO Leo Levy and Ferdinand Levy

Alfred Langford Woodill

Brenda S. Youngblood

Jeanette Hodges Zajac

Samuel Zemurray III

Our Mission. Your Legacy.

Each year, the Museum receives support from passionate Members, volunteers, and friends through their estates. Their gifts provide a lasting impact that helps keep the WWII generation’s voice alive. And every gift counts—no matter the size, your gift will help ensure that future generations are inspired by the Museum you cherish today.

Your generous gift will become part of the Museum’s endowment, which was established to help meet current institutional goals and secure resources for future goals of expanding exhibits, infrastructure, and staff. These cherished endowment funds provide support for the Museum’s educational programming, while also enabling our staff to think creatively and design new initiatives for generations to come.

Making a lasting tribute to the Museum through a deferred planned gift is a simple process. It can be as simple as creating provisions in your will or revocable living trust to benefit the Museum, or naming us as a beneficiary in your life insurance policy. A charitable gift in your estate plan is easy to establish, can be changed at any time, and often produces tangible benefits for you and your family.

Through your planned gift, your legacy is secured forever as a member of the Stephen E. Ambrose Legacy Society, an essential part of the foundation of this institution. Ambrose, who passed away in 2002, devoted his life’s work to preserving and honoring the stories of our service members and Home Front workers who helped achieve victory in World War II. Through the Society, you embody those values and become part of our mission: to educate younger generations about the lessons of World War II and to honor the men and women who sacrificed so much for us.

 As you plan for your future, we invite you to join our mission so that your legacy can continue through our future educational initiatives. 

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Shelita G. Bourgeois, M.S.

Shelita G. Bourgeois, M.S.

Planned Giving Officer

The National WWII Museum
945 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
504.528.1944, ext. 247
shelita.bourgeois@nationalww2museum.org

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