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from 2012 to 2014.

Biography

Likins served as Vice President General of the

from 2008 to 2010, during the presidency of Jane Durden. She went on to serve as the President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy from 2012 to 2014. In 2013, she presided over the General Convention of the UDC in

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. That same year, in September, she honored James Welton Carpenter with a Cross of Military Service, presented by the Toccoa Chapter No. 1294 of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. In June 2014, she attended a program hosted by the Tom Jounson Chapter UDC. She was part of a wreath laying ceremony at Mt. Olive Cemetery in

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in July 2014. Likins laid a wreath on the grave of

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veteran and sculptor

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in 2014. She was succeeded as President General by

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in 2015. She is married to Roy W. Likins.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Likins, Jamie Living people 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Clubwomen Presidents general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Date of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people)