Chattooga County’s only survivor of the D-Day invasion and only surviving Women’s Auxiliary Corps veteran passed away on Sunday.

U.S Army Lt. Rose Jackson served from 1942 to 1946 as a nurse in the European Theater.  In all she served in six campaigns in Europe

Lt. Jackson has related the story of her service in World War II to WZQZ in past interviews.  She was one of about twenty nurses that came onshore in France on June 10, 1944 – just four days after the D-Day invasion that sent the Nazis into retreat as the Allied forces liberated France.

A native of Kansas, Lt. Jackson met her husband in a field hospital and after the war they married and she became a resident of Chattooga County.  She and her husband operated a store in Lyerly for many years.

Mrs. Jackson was a member of Lyerly United Methodist Church, where she attended faithfully until the COVID-19 pandemic.