Executive Officials

Gerald Manley, Jr.
1st Vice President
2024 – 2025
James Arrington
2nd Vice President
2024 – 2025
Brian C. Reeder
New Castle County Director
2024 – 2025

Thomas DiChristofaro
President
2024 – 2025

Elmer Steele
Secretary
2024 – 2025

Terry M. Whitham
Treasurer
2024 – 2025

John Wright
Assistant Treasure
2024 – 2025
Norman Jones, Jr.
Executive Manager
2024 – 2025

Warren Jones
Administrative Assistant
2024 – 2025

Kenneth Ryder, Jr.
Past President
2024 – 2025

Rev. Charlie Arnold
DVFA Chaplin
2024 – 2025

Elected Directors

Guy Hudson
Sussex County Director
2024 – 2025

James Woznicki
Kent County Director
2024 – 2025

County Directors

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Greg Hocker
Sussex County President
2024 – 2025

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Kevin Hovis
Kent County President
2024 – 2025

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Sharonda Spencer
New Castle County President
2024 – 2025

DAVFA Past Presidents

2024 – 2025 – Thomas DiCristofaro – Claymont Fire Company

2023-2024 – Ron O’Neal – Millsboro Volunteer Fire Company

2022 – 2023 – Kenneth Ryder Jr. – Felton Community Fire Company

2021 – 2022 -Dan Carrier – Hockessin Volunteer Fire Company

2019-2021 – Norman Jones, Jr. – Ellendale Volunteer Fire Company

2018 – 2019 – Bill Betts Jr. – Frederica Volunteer Fire Company

2017 – 2018 – Richard Perillo – Brandywine Hundred Fire Company

2016 – 2017 – Ted Walius – Ellendale Volunteer Fire Company

2015 – 2016 – Joseph M. Zeroles – Farmington Volunteer Fire Company

2014 – 2015 – Anthony Guzzo – Hockessin Volunteer Fire Company

2013 – 2014 – Richard Toulson – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

2012 – 2013 – Charles Boyer – Dover Fire Department

2011- 2012 – Charles Frampton – Brandywine Hundred Fire Company

2010 – 2011 – William F. Tobin Jr. – Memorial Volunteer Fire Company

2008 – 2009 – Warren Jones – Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company

2007 – 2008 – Ron Marvel – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

2006 – 2007 – Alan F. Robinson Jr. – Citizens’ Hose Company, No. 1.

2005 – 2006 – Kennard Pyle – Odessa Fire Company

2004 – 2005 – Raymond T. Stevens Jr. – Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company

2003 – 2004 – Marvin Sharp – Carlisle Fire Company

2002 – 2003 – Jasper H. Lakey – Delaware City Fire Company #1 Inc.

2001 – 2002 – Dale Callaway – Milton Volunteer Fire Company

2000 -2001 – James L. Cubbage Jr. – Clayton Fire Company, No. 1 Inc.

1999 – 2000 – Steven Austin – Aetna Hose, Hook, & Ladder Company, Inc.

1998 – 1999 – Michael H. Vincent – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1997 – 1998 – Donald W. Knight – Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company

1996 – 1997 – Joseph W. Hojnicki Sr. – Minquadale Fire Company

1995 – 1996 – Lynn J. Rogers – Milton Volunteer Fire Company

1994 – 1995 – John Allen Metheny Sr. – Hartly Volunteer Fire Company

1993 – 1994 – Harry E. Warner – >Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

1992 – 1993 – Elmer Steele – Laurel Fire Department

1991 – 1992 – George A. Diamond – Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company

1990 – 1991 – Edwin S. Barlow – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1.

1989 – 1990 – Walton A. Johnson Jr. – Frankford Volunteer Fire Company

1988 – 1989 – M. Frank King – Hartly Volunteer Fire Company

1987 – 1988 – Robert G. Sweetman – Aetna Hose, Hook, & Ladder Company, Inc.

1986 – 1987 – Clifford F. Lee – Laurel Fire Department

1985 – 1986 – Thomas V. Baker Sr. – South Bowers Volunteer Fire Company

1984 – 1985 – Lawrence E. Mergenthaler – Mill Creek Fire Company

1983 – 1984 – Richard C. Mitchell Sr. – Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company

1982 – 1983 – William R. Carrow – Clayton Fire Company, No. 1 Inc.

1982 – William G. Walton Sr. – Elsmere Fire Company, No. 1

1981 – John E. Bare Sr. – Frankford Volunteer Fire Company

1980 – Richard E. Ennis Sr. – Citizens’ Hose Company, No. 1.

1979 – Raymond H. McCall – Christiana Fire Company

1978 – E. James Monihan Jr. – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1977 – Morris W. King – Hartly Volunteer Fire Company

1976 – John E. Cunningham Jr. – Minquas Fire Company, No.1.

1975 – Ralph T. Hynson – Greenwood Fire Company, No. 1

1974 – William J. Paskey Jr. – Felton Community Fire Company

1973 – Arthur I. Guessford – Odessa Fire Company

1972 – David B. Joseph – Laurel Fire Department

1971 – Elbert C. Golder Sr. – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1970 – Thomas E. Marshall – Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

1969 – Arthur L. Jones – Greenwood Fire Company, No. 1

1968 – Roland Neeman – Felton Community Fire Company

1967 – Emmanuel J. Harkins – Cranston Heights Fire Company

1966 -William T. Lowe – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1965 – E. Reynolds Bradley – Citizens’ Hose Company, No. 1.

1964 – Clarence A. Schwatka Jr. – Townsend Fire Company, Inc.

1963 – William J. Himes Jr. – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1962 – Zora B. Tatman – Frederica Volunteer Fire Company

1961 – John V. Ryan Jr. – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. –

1960 – James E. Wilgus Sr. – Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company

1959 – Paul Neeman – Harrington Fire Company

1958 – C. Wesley Robinson – Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Company

1957 – Granville T. White – Laurel Fire Department

1956 – Charles H. Jester – Camden-Wyoming Fire Company

1955 – Charles L. Jones – Elsmere Fire Company, No. 1

1954 – Curtis W. Ennis Sr. – Ellendale Volunteer Fire Company

1953 -John W. Bamberger Sr. – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1952 – George W. Duncan – Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

1951 – Edgar S. Stayer – Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company

1950 – Fred E. Burke – Clayton Fire Company, No. 1 Inc.

1949 – Layton C. Baynard – Mill Creek Fire Company

1948 – E. Bloxem Daugherty Sr. – Delmar Volunteer Fire Company

1947 – Fred Brown – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. –

1946 – Fred Brown – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. –

1945 – W. Herald Brittingham Sr. – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1944 – Frank C. O’Neal Sr. – Harrington Fire Company

1941 – John W. Moore Sr. – Christiana Fire Company

1940 – Leroy B. Truitt – Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company

1939 – Lewis W. Walker Sr. – Clayton Fire Company, No. 1 Inc.

1938 – Howard F. Sheldon Sr. – Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

1937 – Reuben A. Steward – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1936 – Willard D. Boyce Sr. – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1935 – Walter Hubert – Mill Creek Fire Company

1934 – Samuel C. Pierce Jr. – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1933 – J. Elmer Haddaway – Camden-Wyoming Fire Company

1932 – John N. Jordin – Five Points Fire Company

1931 – Elbert C. Bailey Sr. – Laurel Fire Department

1930 – Warren W. Pettyjohn – Dover Fire Department

1929 – Robert S. Croes – Cranston Heights Fire Company

1928 – John E. McClaine Jr. – Delmar Volunteer Fire Company

1927 -Harry S. Collins – Citizens’ Hose Company, No. 1.

1926 – G. Clifton Maull – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1924 – 1925 – Edward S. Jones – Volunteer Hose Company

1921 – 1923 – Charles E. Varney – Carlisle Fire Company

LADVFA Past Presidents

2024 – 2025 – Mickey Decino – Cranston Heights Fire Company

2023-2024 – Stacy Northam-Smith – Laurel Fire Department

2022 – 2023 – Debra Lawhead – Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company

2021 – 2022 – Pam Ingle – Good-will Fire Company, No. 1

2019 – 2021 – Karen Workman – Georgetown Volunteer Fire Company

2018 – 2019 – Penny Gentry – Little Creek Volunteer Fire Company

2017 – 2018 – Lynn Warner – Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

2016 – 2017 – Lois Pearson – Greenwood Fire Company, No. 1

2015 – 2016 – Mary Frances Eisenbrey – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

2014 – 2015 – Karen Majewski – Good-will Fire Company, No. 1

2013 – 2014 – Saralee Stevens – Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company

2012 – 2013 – Penny Rodimak – Hartly Volunteer Fire Company

2011 – 2012 – Ann Marie Krystopolski – Cranston Heights Fire Company

2010 – 2011 – Janice Marvel – Roxana Volunteer Fire Company

2009 – 2010 – Lorraine Madden – Bowers Fire Company, Inc.,

2008 – 2009 – Carol Walton – Elsmere Fire Company, No. 1

2007 – 2008 – Debbie Marvel – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

2006 – 2007 – Florence Legates – Marydel Volunteer Fire Company

2005 – 2006 – Barbara Rossiter – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. –

2004 – 2005 – Joyce Figgs – Delmar Volunteer Fire Company

2003 – 2004 – Nancy Green – Harrington Fire Company

2002 – 2003 – Pat McCall – Christiana Fire Company

2001 – 2002 – Shirley Joseph – Ellendale Volunteer Fire Company

2000 – 2001 – Julia Mast – Clayton Fire Company, No. 1 Inc.

1999 – 2000 – Eileen Doyle – Brandywine Hundred Fire Company

1998 – 1999 – Bonnie Workman – Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company

1997 – 1998 – Barbara Metheny – Hartly Volunteer Fire Company

1996 – 1997 – Barbara Lewis – Five Points Fire Company

1995 – 1996 – Sally Stevenson – Memorial Volunteer Fire Company

1994 – 1995 – Annabelle Boone – Houston Volunteer Fire Company.

1993 – 1994 – Peg Scarpitti – Claymont Fire Company

1992 – 1993 – Eleanor Raye Warrington – Georgetown Volunteer Fire Company

1991 – 1992 – Frances Deneumoustier – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1990 – 1991 – Joann Sweetman – Aetna Hose, Hook, & Ladder Company, Inc.

1989 – 1990 – Nancy Hooper – Frankford Volunteer Fire Company

1988 – 1989 – Marie Moore – Felton Community Fire Company

1987 – 1988 – Joanne Tulowitzki – Minquadale Fire Company

1986 – 1987 – Jean Marvel – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1985 – 1986 – Doris Semans – Magnolia Volunteer Fire Company

1984 – 1985 – Florence Stackler – Wilmington Manor Volunteer Fire Company

1983 – 1984 – Kathryn Timmons – Dagsboro Fire Department

1982 – 1983 – Emily Bender – Marydel Volunteer Fire Company

1981 – 1982 – M. Jean Oneschuk – Good-will Fire Company, No. 1

1980 – 1981 – F. Elaine Jones – Greenwood Fire Company, No. 1

1979 – 1980 – Janet Fisher – Felton Community Fire Company

1978 – 1979 – Charlotte Bush – Christiana Fire Company

1977 – 1978 – Dorothy Merritt – Delmar Volunteer Fire Company

1976 – 1977 – Grace Ferguson – Little Creek Volunteer Fire Company

1975 – 1976 – Doris Carello – Minquadale Fire Company

1974 – 1975 – Grace LeCates – Delmar Volunteer Fire Company

1973 – 1974 – Ileene Tigner – Leipsic Volunteer Fire Company

1972 – 1973 – Sally Malloy – Talleyville Volunteer Fire Company

1971 – 1972 – Margaret Justice – Millville Volunteer Fire Company

1970 – 1971 -Margaret Golder – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1969 – 1970 – Dorothy Morris – Brandywine Hundred Fire Company

1968 – 1969 – Emily Coleburn – Indian River Volunteer Fire Company

1967 – 1968 – Ruth Rusby – Leipsic Volunteer Fire Company

1966 – 1967 – Catherine Jenkins – Mill Creek Fire Company

1965 – 1966 -Emma Short – Millsboro Volunteer Fire Company

1964 – 1965 – Patricia Meluney – Camden-Wyoming Fire Company

1963 – 1964 – Clara Smith – Townsend Fire Company, Inc.

1962 – 1963 – Alberta Favinger – Bridgeville Volunteer Fire Company

1961 – 1962 – K. Dorothy Dill – Felton Community Fire Company

1960 – 1961 – Estelle Baker – Claymont Fire Company

1959 – 1960 – Margaret Hastings – Blades Volunteer Fire Company

1958 – 1959 – Eva M. Raughley – Harrington Fire Company

1957 – 1958 – Marie G. Saunders – Aetna Hose, Hook, & Ladder Company, Inc.

1956 – 1957 – Minnie Kyttle – Laurel Fire Department

1955 – 1956 – Angie Potter – Harrington Fire Company

1954 – 1955 – Josephine Brown – Mill Creek Fire Company

1953 – 1954 – Mary Uhler – Greenwood Fire Company, No. 1

1952 – 1953 – Elizabeth Luff MacMillan – Cheswold Volunteer Fire Company

1951 – 1952 – Bertha E. Carlisle – Holloway Terrace Volunteer Fire Company, No. 1. –

1950 – 1951 – Mary Brittingham – Lewes Fire Department, Inc.

1949 – 1950 – Madilene Powell – Bowers Fire Company, Inc.,

1948 – 1949 – Nan Laws woods – Five Points Fire Company

1947 – 1948 – Maud Spicer – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1946 – 1947 – Katherine Derrickson – Harrington Fire Company

1945 – 1946 – Nan Laws woods – Five Points Fire Company

1944 – 1945 – Eunice Tull – Seaford Volunteer Fire Department

1943 – 1944 – Estelle Cahill – Bowers Fire Company, Inc.,

1942 – 1943 – Estelle Cahill – Bowers Fire Company, Inc.,

1941 – 1942 – Estelle Cahill – Bowers Fire Company, Inc.,

1940 – 1941 – Nan Laws woods – Five Points Fire Company

1939 – 1940 – Bertha West – Selbyville Volunteer Fire Company

1938 – 1939 – Elsie C. O’Neal – Harrington Fire Company

1937 – 1938 – Nan Laws woods – Five Points Fire Company

Officers Emeritus

J. Benjamin Roy, Jr. – Cheswold – Died April 18, 2020

C. Bryan Bennett – Seaford – Died June 10, 2020

Louis J. Amabili – Hockessin – Died September 28, 2017 

Norman L. Tate – Seaford – January 25, Died 2004

William V. Roth, Jr. – U.S. Senator – Died December 13, 2003

Harvey Ryan – Holloway Terrace – Died March 13, 2003

Fr. Paul E. Burke – Holloway Terrace – Died April 21, 2001

Newlin E. Wood, Sr. – Hartly – Died June 26, 1991

William Lutz – Wilmington – Died November 21, 1988

Ralph H. Boyer – Dover – Died February 26, 1987

Howell H. Barnes – Smyrna – Died May 20, 1982

J. James Ashton – Wilmington – Died February 6, 1981

F. Altern Jones – Claymont – Died January 20, 1973

John D. Morris – Smyrna – Died February 28, 1974

Dr. Thomas C. Mulligan – Georgetown – Died June 29, 1962

William Kirk – Richardson Park – Died December 15, 1954

Charles H. Honey, Sr. – Brandywine Hundred – Died October 14, 1953

N. L. Woods – Richardson Park – Died June 28, 1951

Bruce C. Ennis – Citizens Hose & State Senator

Joseph R. Biden – U.S. Senator

Michael N. Castle – U.S. Representative

Kenneth McMahon – Christiana Fire Company

Alberta Morris

Alberta was a member of the Citizens’ Hose Company, No. 1..

Alberta was born June 14, 1928. She became a Charter Member of the Citizens Hose Company Ladies Auxiliary, as it was formed May 5, 1950 and became a Life Member in 1975. She was President of the Auxiliary for 20+ years. Alberta also served as DelMarVa Ladies Auxiliary President 1981-1982 and Kent County Ladies Auxiliary President 1997-1998. In February 2005, Alberta was voted President Emeritus of the LADVFA. She passed away on August 1, 2010 and is buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery, Smyrna.