Latter-day Saint Nurses at War Project
Dates
- Existence: 2002-
Biography
The Latter-day Saint Nurses at War project (2002- ) gathers and publishes wartime experiences of Latter-day Saint nurses. The project is led by Dr. Patricia Rushton of the College of Nursing at Brigham Young University.
Citation:
UPB files, April 20, 2020 (Latter-day Saint Nurses at War Project; gathered and published wartime experiences of LDS nurses; project director Patricia Rushton of the College of Nursing, BYU; began collecting narratives in 2002)Latter-day Saint nurses at war, [2001] : page 1 (LDS Nurses at War Project)
Latter-day Saint nurses at war, 2005 : conclusion (Nurses at War project is ongoing)
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Memories of an Army nurse in World War II, 1944-1945
Typed autobiography. Ora Mae Sorensen was born in 1922 in Taylor, Texas and married Edmond Preston Hyatt in 1945. Many letters addressed to family memers have been typed into the autobiography which largely describes her military service as a nurse. She served mainly in the Pacific area.
Dorothy Cabris Peay autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. Dorothy Cabris was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1924, served as a nurse for the United States Army from 1944 to 1945, and married Richard V. Peay in 1945.
Barbara Toomer autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. Toomer was born in 1929 and went into nursing. She served as a nurse at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, from 1953 to 1955. She married Ross Toomer in 1953.
Althea Rawlins Woodland autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. Althea was born in 1920 in Lewiston, Utah. She was stationed as a nurse in San Francisco, California, and was later sent to England. She married Daniel Platt Woodland in 1946.
Ruth Udy Dare autobiography
Typed autobiography. Ruth Udy was born in 1921 in Idaho. She worked in the Los Angeles, California area and in Germany. She married Douglas Byron Dare in 1946 and died in 2001.