Department of Veteran Affairs

Items listed below are in the file drawers of a cabinet in the Kansas Room of LVPL.
For additional online information, click here: Department of Veteran's Affairs

"VA Plan Threatens Historic Buildings." Kansas Preservation 21 (6) November-December 1999.

[Copies of News Photos of the VA Chapel and Veterans Parade September 15, 1985.]

Brief Historical Resume Veterans Administration Center Leavenworth, Kansas November 23, 1971. [Typed essay several copies different years]

"Only 17 Civil War Veterans Left in the Soldiers Home." Kansas City Star. March 12, 1936?

[Pictures of Emmanuel Chapel from a 1986 Leavenworth calendar]

Reinolds, Chris. "Sculptured Globe Thought to be One-of-a-Kind Creation." January 10, 1992.

"Bill Naming VA Center for Eisenhower Passes." Leavenworth Times October 13, 1989.

"Chapel of the Veterans Provides Dual Worship Services." Leavenworth Times. July 29, 1983.

"History of VA Center Related to Lions Club." Leavenworth Times. 28 May 1982.

"VA Medical Center Rededicated As Part of Kansas Eisenhower Centennial Kick-Off." Lamp. January 19, 1990.

Trowbridge, Catherine. "VA Medical Center Taking History into the Future." Leavenworth Times. March 8, 1992.

Greer, Hope. "Water-Damaged Chapel Needs Repair." Leavenworth Times. March 7, 1993.

"Early Leavenworth" [Photo] Leavenworth Times.

"Improvements at Center." Leavenworth Times. January 30, 1972.

"Leavenworth Worked to Obtain Soldiers Home." Leavenworth Times.

"Name of Home for Veterans Changed Again."

Johnston III, J. H. "Our Salute to America's Bicentennial from the Leavenworth National Banks and Trust Co."

Ruff, L. Candy. "Seeking Homeless Veterans." Leavenworth Times. May 15, 1988.

"Thirteen Civil War Veterans Live at Home." Leavenworth Times. May 1936.

[Pictures of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers from a 1986 Leavenworth calendar]

"A 'V' Will Take the Place of Famous 'World' At Veterans Administration Facility, Wadsworth." Leavenworth Times. 1942.

Pierce, Jack. VA Medical Center, to: C. B. McMath, Honolulu, HI, September 16, 1980.

"Soldiers Home." Leavenworth Times. [The story of Capt. M. H. Anderson]

"Old Age Closes Doors of VA Center Chapel."

Christensen, Jean. "Director Makes Her Rounds for the VA."

"No Services Today." [photo] Leavenworth Times. April 11, 1965.

"Historic Chapel to Open." Kansas City Star. October 31, 1971.

Riedel, Eric. "Home Chapel: Unique in May Ways." Leavenworth Times.

Chapel of Veterans Leavenworth VA Center. [A brochure]

"VA Center Chapel is One of a Kind."

"Fellowship at VAMC." Leavenworth Times. July 8, 1983.

"VA Immanuel Chapel Repairs." Leavenworth Times. January 31, 1971.

"Chaplain Calvin Causey Veterans Administration Medical Center." Leavenworth Times. February 27, 1961.

"Chaplain William Guthmon VA Center Chaplain." Leavenworth Times. February 1, 1986?

Where Veterans are Cared For. [A historical essay]