106-year-old WWII veteran, among the oldest in Colorado, dies

The video above is from a 2022 interview with Monica Agnew-Kinnaman.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KDVR) — A trailblazing Colorado veteran who served her country in World War II has died at age 106.

Monica Agnew-Kinnaman died May 24 after a brief illness , according to relatives.

Born in Britain, she served as an officer in the British Army in World War II, at a time when women in the military were rare. Assigned to an anti-artillery division, she stood watch over the gun sites used to fire shots on German planes flying bombing missions over England.

“So I and other women in the military at the time were following enemy planes coming in,” she told FOX31 in a 2022 interview .

She said she never gave a second thought to joining the military.

“Everyone was doing something. Because at one time, the Germans were only 20 miles from us,” she said.

After the war, she moved to the United States with her husband and eventually made her way to Colorado Springs.

She went on to earn her Ph.D. and served as a prison psychologist in a medium-security Colorado prison until her retirement at age 83. But she was not done yet.

In her early 90s, she wrote a series of children’s books. And as recently as last month, she was sharing her history with fifth graders at a Colorado Springs school.

Agnew-Kinnaman’s daughter told FOX31 her mother’s health took a turn late last month, and she died on May 24.

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