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 32 Collections and/or Records:
Kent D. Blad interview
Typescript of an interview of Blad conducted on 19 Nov. 2001. Blad was stationed in Saudi Arabia in 1990 and 1991. He talked about his service during the Persian Gulf War and about the challenges working in a hospital at that time.
A. Elaine Bond interview
Typescript of an interview conducted on November 6, 2001, shortly after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Bond was sent by the Red Cross to Washington, D.C. She tells about her service at the Pentagon and with the people who were injured in the attack on that building. She served there from September 15 to October 5, 2001.
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.
Beth Smith Edvalson interview
Typescript probably taken from an interview. Edvalson talked about her nursing education at the University of Utah starting in 1943. She married Frederick M. Edvalson on 4 July 1945 after she completed her training.
Lillie Jacobs Fitzsimons interviews
Typescript of an interview. Fitzsimons was sent to Australia and New Guinea in 1943. After 18 months, she went to a hospital in the Philippines. She talked about the challenges of nursing in a tropical area. She treated both American soldiers and Japanese captives.
Erma Louise Hirschi Gantenbein interview
Typed copy of an interview. Gantenbein was born in Idaho in 1921, graduated from the L.D.S. Hospital in Idaho Falls, Idaho, in 1942, and served in the United States Army from 1943 to 1946. She served in hospitals in Great Britain and France. She married Earl Gantenbein in 1946.
Edith Maurine Edwards Garrard interview
Typed interview. Garrard was a cadet nurse starting in 1943. She graduated from the LDS Hospital 3 year diploma program in 1946. She never served as a nurse for the military during World War II. She talked about her training and education.
Rosmary Clara Klatt Harms interview
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.
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- Military 29
- Politics, Government, and Law 29
- Nurses -- United States -- Biography 21
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care 19
- Latter Day Saint women -- Biography 18
- Autobiographies 15
- Interviews 11
- Nurses -- United States -- Interviews 10
- Medicine and Health 9
- Science, Technology, and Health 9
- Biography -- 20th century 6
- Latter Day Saint women -- Interviews 4
- World War, 1939-1945 -- United States -- Personal narratives 4
- Colleges and Universities 2
- Education 2
- Letters 2
- Persian Gulf War, 1991 2
- September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001 2
- Fort Bragg (N.C.) 1
- Home and Family 1
- Korean War, 1950-1953 1
- Nurses -- Germany -- Interviews 1
- Nurses -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Social Life and Customs 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Personal narratives, American 1
- War brides -- United States 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, German 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines 1 + ∧ less