Late veteran's family fighting to save home

By Angel K. Brooks

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The wife of a late Army veteran is fighting the Department of Veterans Affairs for the benefits she needs to save her Coweta County home, Channel 2 Action News reported Tuesday night.

The Senoia home is scheduled to be sold at a foreclosure auction March 6, the TV report said.

"They booted me out," Brenda Womer told Channel 2.

Womer said she and her husband, Byron, a Vietnam veteran, lived in the home together for 10 years before his death in 2009. She said her husband's pension would cover the mortgage -- if she could get the money.

"Three months before he died, he was granted this [pension] by the VA, but he died before he received the first check," daughter Sherry Womer Taylor told Channel 2.

The VA has told the family that it can't access the medical records.

A fire destroyed 16 million to 18 million military records -- including Byron Womer's -- at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis in July 1973, the report said.

The VA told Channel 2 that it is "seeking a resolution for this family."