AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 3 -- The Texas General Land Office issued the following news release:
On Tuesday, September 8 at 10:00 a.m., the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery will conduct an Unaccompanied Veteran Burial for United States Air Force Veteran, Major (Maj) Johnnie Lee Pennington. Born on July 10, 1936 Maj. Pennington served from November 1965 to August 1985.
On November 10, 1965, Maj. Pennington entered the United States Air Force as a commissioned officer. She began as a second lieutenant in supply and logistics at a time when opportunities for women in the military remained severely limited and women still served under the Women in the Air Force, or WAF, structure.
In early 1968, Maj. Pennington served in Vietnam, in what ...