Marie Odee Johnson (July 23, 1897 – September 25, 2004) was an American who was one of the last surviving female veterans from the First World War.
[1] Marie Odee Johnson was born in Quincy, Illinois, but her family moved to Dallas, Texas, when she was an infant.
[2] She was serving as a secretary with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in Dallas when the United States entered World War I.
[5] Johnson was one of 12,000 women (other than nurses) who worked for the Navy "handling clerical duties in the United States to free men for fighting.
[5] Johnson moved into the Transitional Care Unit in the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center in 1998.