Missouri Veterans Commission Service Officers for Howard County (Columbia office)

Howard County has no county veterans office; the Missouri Veterans Commission's Columbia office at 1121 Business Loop 70 East, 2nd Floor (Caleb Grady and Kevin Owens, 573-817-4273 or 573-817-4272) serves Howard, Boone and Callaway counties with free VA claims help, Monday to Thursday 8 to 4 and Friday 8 to noon.

Also called: veterans service officer, VSO, Missouri Veterans Commission, MVC, claims, appeals, Caleb Grady, Kevin Owens, 1121 Business Loop 70, 573-817-4273, Columbia, Fayette, Glasgow, New Franklin, Armstrong, Franklin, Boonesboro.

For: Veteran or service member, spouse, child, survivor.

Where it applies

Written for the jurisdictions listed here.

Howard County, MOCounty

Missouri has no county veterans service officers in statute; the Missouri Veterans Commission's officers do the work (see the Missouri entry). The Commission's service officer locator lists the Columbia office at 1121 Business Loop 70 East, 2nd Floor, Room 2D, Columbia, MO 65203, serving "Boone, Callaway, Howard" counties: Veteran Service Officers Caleb Grady and Kevin Owens ([email protected]), 573-817-4273 or 573-817-4272, Monday to Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to noon, under supervisor Arthur Nott-Hopkins. The office record was edited March 4, 2026; older per-officer records still give the former address at 900 West Nifong Boulevard and show one post vacant. The office is in Boone County, east across the Missouri River; Howard County has no website to name a local outreach day. What the help is. Free claims help with VA compensation, pension, survivor and burial benefits, and appeals. No rating is needed to ask. Howard County's VA care runs through the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans' Hospital in Columbia; see the federal entries.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Missouri Veterans Commission Service Officers for Howard County (Columbia office)
Gate	Rule
Veterans and survivors	Free claims help; no rating is needed to ask.

Sources

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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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