Auxiliary and post are two bodies at one address
The distinction matters when you are trying to reach the right people. The post — Hickory VFW Post 6166 — runs the building at 5550 East State Street in Hermitage, together with the Normandy Banquet Center attached to it. It holds post meetings, rents the hall, runs a kitchen with a Friday fish night, and hosts outside events such as gun shows and car shows. Its own page names its post meetings at 1800 with the board meeting an hour earlier, and it publishes [email protected].
The Auxiliary is the separate membership body that works alongside that post. Auxiliary 6166 has its own Facebook page, its own phone contact through the post number, and an address at [email protected]. This domain was the Auxiliary's website until it lapsed; the Auxiliary itself did not go anywhere.
What the Auxiliary movement does
The national VFW Auxiliary describes itself as uniting people from all walks of life since 1914 with a common purpose: to improve the lives of veterans, service members and their families. Auxiliaries carry that out locally — supporting veterans in their county, contributing to programmes for service families, and raising money for them.
The mission statement that stood on this domain's own archived pages put the purpose of the corporation as fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable and educational: to preserve and strengthen comradeship among its members, to assist worthy comrades, to perpetuate the memory and history of the dead and assist their widows and orphans, to maintain allegiance to the Government of the United States and fidelity to its Constitution and laws, and to foster true patriotism.
If you are looking for an auxiliary near you rather than this one, the national organisation runs a locator by city or ZIP code at vfwauxiliary.org.
Every statement and its source
- Auxiliary's Facebook page
Hickory VFW Auxiliary post 6166 | Hermitage PA … vfwaux6166.org … (724) 981-2273 … [email protected]
The page still names this domain as its website, which is why the page you are reading points visitors onward instead of speaking for the Auxiliary. - Post's Facebook page
Hickory VFW Post 6166 & Normandy Banquet Center, Hermitage. 5550 East State Street, Hermitage, PA, United States, 16148 … (724) 981-2273 … [email protected]
Same page carries notices such as a post meeting at 1800 with the board of directors at 1700. - Google listing
Hickory VFW 6166 — Association / Organization, 5550 E State St, Hermitage, PA 16148, +1 724-981-2273
Read 10 Sept 2026. Listed 11:00–21:00 Monday to Saturday and 11:00–19:00 on Sunday; those are the building's hours, not Auxiliary meeting times. The listing's website field points to the banquet centre's site. - County visitor bureau
Hickory VFW 6166, 5550 E State St
Listed as an event location for Mercer County, Pennsylvania. - National VFW Auxiliary
Since 1914, the VFW Auxiliary has united individuals from all walks of life with a common purpose: to improve the lives of veterans, service members, their families…
vfwauxiliary.org, the national body's own wording. - Archived pages of this domain
WELCOME TO VFW AUXILIARY 6166 … OUR MISSION: That the purpose of this Corporation shall be fraternal, patriotic, historical, charitable, and educational…
Captured July 2023, the last working version of the Auxiliary's own site. Its members-only area, announcements and gallery are not reproduced: they belonged to the Auxiliary and are not ours to republish.