Stanton County Veterans Service Office

Stanton County’s Veterans Service Office in the Stanton courthouse became a full-time office on August 4, 2025 under Veterans Service Officer Douglas Hart, files VA and State claims, hands out the county’s “Thank You for your Service” coins, and works with the committee that built the Veterans’ Memorial Park dedicated on Memorial Day 2026.

Also called: veterans service office, CVSO, Douglas Hart, Doug Hart, Thank You for your Service coin, challenge coin, Veterans’ Memorial Park, VSO committee, Stanton, Pilger.

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

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Stanton County, NECounty

The office. The Stanton County Veterans Service Office is in the courthouse, 804 Ivy Street, Stanton, NE 68779 (mailing address PO Box 723), phone (402) 439-2196, fax (402) 439-2200, [email protected]. The Veterans Service Officer is Douglas Hart, appointed July 21, 2025. The county's page says the office has been full-time "Effective August 4, 2025", Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by appointment; the State's directory (updated October 26, 2026) still gives Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday only, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or by appointment. Discharges filed with the County Clerk "are not public information", and the Clerk's Military Records page sends veterans to this office. The year. The Board approved the State department's memorandum of understanding with the office on November 17, 2025, and on December 15, 2025 authorized Mr. Hart to buy "Thank You for your Service" appreciation coins "for distribution to county veterans to thank them for their service to the country". Its 2026 Veterans Service Committee is Keith Anderson, Jim Campbell, Robert Chilcoat, Bill Johnson and Clint Warnke (January 8, 2026). On July 20, 2026 the Board raised the officer's pay to $30 an hour. The Veterans' Memorial Park. A volunteer committee (LaLene Bates, Deb Hoehne and Mike Wilke among its members) built the Stanton County Veterans' Memorial Park at 707 Ivy Street in Stanton, with the county insuring its monuments (November 17, 2025), accepting a $1,191.37 quote for a security camera system (April 20, 2026), paying $26,488.59 for the gazebo (June 15, 2026) and taking on its upkeep; the committee told the Board on July 20, 2026 that the park was finished before its dedication on Memorial Day, and on September 21, 2026 Mr. Hart and the Board began work on an agreement for community use of the park. The money. Full-time hours nearly doubled the office's spending: 0100-803 spent $35,418.24 in 2024-2025 and $62,575.67 in 2025-2026 against $68,450.00 budgeted, and the 2026-2027 request is $72,500.00, with $200.00 for grave markers and flags.

Thresholds

Thresholds for Stanton County Veterans Service Office
Gate	Rule
Any Stanton County veteran or dependent	Claims help and the county’s appreciation coins need no rating; the rating filter never hides this entry.

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Last updated 2026-10-30.

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