Winters helped to found the National Yeoman (F) Association in 1926 and served as its eighth commander in 1940 and 1941. She was active in the American Legion for 88 years. She died, aged 109, in Boonsboro, Maryland and was buried with full military honors at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Frederick, Maryland. At the time of her death, she was the oldest living World War I veteran in the USA, leaving only two living World War I female veterans left in the world, then-108-year-old Gladys Powers and 107-year-old Ivy Campany, who served for the United Kingdom.
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