{"id":119,"date":"2024-04-07T17:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T21:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/de\/?page_id=119"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T00:49:45","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Missouri Federation<\/h4>\n<p>The Missouri Federation is one of seven state Federations making up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/region05\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>NARFE Region 05<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4>History<\/h4>\n<p>On December 12, 1953, all NARFE Chapters in Missouri responded to a call to meet in Jefferson City to form a Federation. Five chapters \u2013 Springfield 11, Joplin 19, Kansas City 20, Columbia 312, and Jefferson City 313 \u2013 sent delegates. Three chapters were represented by proxy \u2013 Monett 41, St. Louis 112, and St. Joseph 307. The meeting unanimously agreed to form a permanent Federation to be named the \u201cMissouri Federation of Chapters of the National Association of Retired Civil Employees.\u201d A Constitution and Bylaws were adopted. Plans for the first annual convention were made with Springfield being named as the site. At the National Convention in 1970, the word \u201cCivil\u201d was changed to \u201cFederal,\u201d and in 2004 the word \u201cAssociation\u201d was changed to \u201cActive,\u201d resulting in the <strong>MISSOURI FEDERATION of the NATIONAL ACTIVE AND RETIRED FEDERAL EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h4>Elected Officers:<\/h4>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President<\/a> <\/strong>\u2013 Patricia Barrett<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-1st-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1st Vice President<\/a><\/strong><strong>\/Legislative<\/strong>\u2013 Craig Pettibone<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-2nd-vice-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2nd Vice President<\/a><\/strong><strong>\/Membership<\/strong> \u2013 William Cooper<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-treasurer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Treasurer<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Marcy Nelson<br>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-secretary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Secretary<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Kay Crayton<\/p>\n<h4>Congressional District Leaders:<\/h4>\n<p><strong>1st District<\/strong> \u2013 Susan Erickson<br>\n<strong>2nd District<\/strong> \u2013 Linda Kurz<br>\n<strong>3rd District<\/strong> \u2013 Dick Thissen<br>\n<strong>4th District<\/strong> \u2013 Steve Morrison<br>\n<strong>5th District<\/strong> \u2013 Robert Hagedorn<br>\n<strong>6th District<\/strong> \u2013 Vacant<br>\n<strong>7th District<\/strong> \u2013 Laura Cowart<br>\n<strong>8th District<\/strong> \u2013 Vacant<\/p>\n<h4>Appointed Officers:<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-alzheimers-chair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Alzheimer\u2019s<\/strong> <\/a>\u2013 Cindy Roderique<br>\n<strong>NARFE PAC<\/strong> \u2013 Dick Thissen<br>\n<strong>Newsletter Editor<\/strong> \u2013 Kay Crayton<br>\n<strong>Public Relations\/<a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-webmaster-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Webmaster<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 Leslie McCormick<br>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/contact-service-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Service Officer<\/a><\/strong> \u2013 William Cooper<br>\n<strong>FEEA Coordinator<\/strong> \u2013 Emerson Kretzer<br>\n<strong>National Legislation<\/strong> \u2013 Craig Pettibone<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/lp\/join-54z\/?utm_source=r05\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JOIN NARFE!<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NARFE Missouri Federation history and list of officers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"kp-content-permissions":[],"class_list":["post-119","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/119\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kp-content-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.narfe.org\/mo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kp-content-permissions?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}