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Biography -- 20th century

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Biography and obituary of Emma Bailey Gunnell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341429]
Identifier: MSS 2639
Scope and Contents

Typed copies of a one-paragraph biography of Gunnell and of her obituary. Emma B. Gunnell was in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps from 1943 to 1963. She served in field hospitals in Europe and in the Philippines. During the Korean War, she served in Hawaii. Gunnell achieved the rank of major.

Dates: 1993-2002

Biography of Beverly Rasband Dixon

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341486]
Identifier: MSS 2632
Scope and Contents

Typed Biography of Beverly Rasband Dixon. She was born in 1920 in Heber City, Utah, served as a nurse for the United States Navy during World War II, and was stationed at the Oak-knoll Naval Hospital in the Bay Area of California. She married Sheldon Schaerrer Dixon in 1946 and died in 2000.

Dates: approximately 2000

Biography of Dora Maiben by James W. Nicholes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341155]
Identifier: MSS 2605
Scope and Contents

Typed biography of Dora Maiben. Dora was born in 1886 in Provo, Utah, and died in 1978, in Bountiful, Utah. She studied nursing at the LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, served as a nurse with the United States Army in France during World War I, and cared for United States personnel stationed in Germany after the war. She later served in the Balkans and then returned to Utah. She never married.

Dates: 1990

Biography of Leona Berg Campbell

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341494]
Identifier: MSS 2631
Scope and Contents

Typewritten biography of Leona Berg Campbell. She graduated from the L.D.S. Hospital Nursing School in 1923. In 1943, she worked at the Topaz Japanese Relocation Camp outside Delta, Utah. The hospital she worked in was a modern facilty, and she enjoyed her assignment there.

Dates: 2002

Eleanor Nicholes

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341205]
Identifier: MSS 2611
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000

Bessie Rachel Weeter

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197230341338]
Identifier: MSS 2625
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2000