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 21 Collections and/or Records:
Estelle M. Burton autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. Burton was a nurse for the United States Navy. She was stationed at Jacksonville, Florida, in 1948. She was in the service from 1948 until 1949. She married Lee D. Burton in 1949 and later joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Idonna Davis Doerig autobiography
Typed autobiography. Doerig was born in 1923 in Greenville, Utah. She married Albert Doerig, Jr. in 1954. After the war, she joined the United States Air Force Reserve Program and retired as a lieutenant colonel.
Maurine Harris autobiography
Typed autobiography. Harris was born in Wellsville, Utah, in 1927 and started her training in the Cadet Corps in August of 1945. She studied nursing at the University of Utah.
Audrey Fryer Kent autobiography
Typewritten autobiography. She served in the Letterman General Hospital at the Presidio in San Francisco, California. She was assigned to operating rooms and helped with reconstructive surgery. She married D. W. Kent in 1944.
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.
Eleanor Nicholes
Typewritten biography of Eleanor Nicholes. Eleanor was born in American Fork, Utah, in 1915. She became an officer in the Army and served much of the war in hospitals in the Midwest, mostly in Iowa. She never married and died in 1997 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
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.
Bessie Rachel Weeter
Typewritten biography of Bessie Rachel Weeter by an unknown author. Weeter graduated from the LDS Hospital School of Nursing in Salt Lake City, Utah. She served in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps for 31 years and retired in 1976. She died in 1999.
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.
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