Question of the Week: Do you have any nurses in your family tree?

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May 6 is National Nurses Day and May 12 is International Nurses Day.  

Do you have any nurses in your family tree? 

PS: Keep an eye on the Connection Finder to see how are connected to Florence Nightingale!

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My relative, Dessie J. Rhoades Zingher, was a nurse serving in the U.S. Army Cadet Nursing Corps in 1945, graduated from Methodist Hospital in 1948.  Trained in delivering babies and spent two years studying anesthesia in Minniesota and Springfield, Illinois.  She married a Doctor Henry Zingher.

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My Nana, Annie Lyle Wallace Mathewson, was a Nurse in Montreal and my mom, Anne Louise Mathewson Fulcher, was an NA in Edmonton. I am currently an LPN in Edmonton.

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I am the nurse in the family tree-been a nurse for over 40 years. My mother was not a “nurse” but certainly provided nursing care to both her parents, family members and friends. Learned so much from her

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I have been a nurse for 41 years. First a nurse’s aid, LPN, RN and now a BSN. Nursing is a “calling”, an art. A nurse’s touch is everything to those who need it. Family members can be unofficial nurse’s and provide that “touch”. You can be a nurse but never be fulfilled unless you are a nurturer by nature, never be satisfied. I hope our young nurses are in the field as a “calling”. I hope for all our sakes.

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My Great-grandmother, Bernice McHenry was a Practical Nurse. I only remember her as being retired but I remember the stories she would tell about becoming a nurse.

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Our daughter Maria is a nurse, my maternal first cousins, Bonni, Sherry and Eileen are nurses, and cousin Sherry's son Jeremy is a nurse.

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I was a Registered Nurse employed in several different areas full-time (except for mat leaves) from 1966 to retirement in 2010. 43+ years.  Received award for Obstetrical nursing at Graduation. Started out in NICU. then DVA Hospital. then Float position in 2 general hospitals (2 different cities). then Gynaecology/High-risk pregnancy. Then Orthopaedics for 9 years. Finally geriatrics/long-term care for the last 22 years.   I enjoyed each stage in different ways. My maternal grandfather was a surgeon in the Royal Navy during the Boer War and then a family physician until his untimely death at 42 - he had lanced a boil for a patient. scalpel slipped and he developed septicaemia and died. My cousin was also a Registered Nurse & her father - my uncle - was a physician and surgeon - a specialist in Tropical medicine who took a new job when he retired at age 75 - doing medicals for an insurance company until age 92 - and was still reading his copy of the British Medical Journal until his death at 106 years!!

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I finished my Masters in nursing a few years ago.  My grandmother Nina Nickerson Fritz was a nurse. My grandmother wanted someone to become a nurse.  My older sister Jane Vicario Fritz became a CNA, as did her second daughter. One of Janes granddaughters became a Medical Assistant in a daughters office.  I became a MSN RN, then our younger sister became a RN.  I know our grandmother must be beaming from heaven to know that so many of her granddaughters and great granddaughters have followed in her steps into healthcare.

Taylor

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My father, John Irwin Merrill started out as a corpsman in the United States Navy, serving 2 tours in Vietnam, treating Marines on the battlefield. He was injured and received a purple heart medal. Once he retired from the Navy, he went to college and complete his degree in nursing. Working in a hospital and with the elderly.

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I am a third generation registered nurse.

My grandmother Evelyn May (Brown) McDonald 1896-1963

My Mother Esther L. (Nelson) McDonald 1912-1977 a graduate of Newton-Welsley school of nursing in 1936 worked as an ER, OR, Labor & delivery,. Finley, at the end of her career, managed a new born nursery.

I an an ER registered nurse, graduating form Polk State in 1985,  For 36 years, I have cared for your families and loved ones while I worked in large trauma teaching hospitals and small hidden critical access hospitals.  

Now I am proud to say that my grand daughter, a pediatric ICU registered nurse, graduated from my alma mater in 2019. Aleesha (Gooding) Hudson is now working on her Masters degree in nursing.

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My mother, Mathilda Louisa (Tillie) was a nurse and midwife from 1940 until retirement in the 70's.

At one stage she operated a maternity hospital in the 50's in our house in Ermelo, South Africa and could accommodate 11 patients

My sister, also Mathilda Louisa (nickname Giraffe) became a nurse in the 1960's and worked at H F Verwoerd Hospital in Pretoria, South Africa and later became the Matron of 1st Military Hospital, Voortrekkerhoogte, near Pretoria. She retired and resides in Gauteng.

 

Regards

 

Hennie Greeff

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yes myself and my niece and my aunt

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My sister, Sue has been a nurse for over 30 years.

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My mother was a nurse and absolutely loved her profession.  She went to nursing school at the Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital in Pennsylvania in the late 1930s, and retired from nursing while serving at the Flagstaff Community Hospital in Flagstaff, Arizona in the late 1960s.  Before moving to Flagstaff in 1958 she was employed for a number of years at Lutheran Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. I have strong memories of her going off to work her shift in her brilliant white uniform, white nylon stockings, freshly polished white shoes and all topped off by her stiffly starched and properly folded nurses hat perched on her head.

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My great-great-aunt, Flora Nyns, was a nurse who served in world war I in the hospital Océane in de Panne, Blegium, at the side of the Belgian Queen Elisabeth

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My grandmother was a nurse in NZ in the 1940s

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My Fathers great aunt Florence Adeline Borrett b1880 was with the red cross and she spent time during WW1 in Egypt in war hospital.  She also worked with orphaned children in homes in London.

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My mother, Margaret Jesse (Ladell) Wilson was raised on several farms with her 12 brothers and sisters.  For the most part they were home schooled by teachers brought in by my grandfather. With only a grade eight education she and her younger sister were accepted to train at St. Joeseph's Hospital in Victoria, B.C..  With her sister deciding that this was not for her, my mother continued on and in June of 1927 she received her certification as a Registered Nurse with a certificate of Obstetrical Nursing.

    With information from a nursing friend, she was able to get two months of nursing work for the summer months in Summerland, B.C..   In later years I would become close acquaintance of the very first baby that my mother helped to deliver that summer. He just passed away last fall at the age of 90 years.

After a very busy summer with work, and meeting my father, she returned to Victoria where Polio was rampant.  She nursed people privately and nursed at a boy's school near Duncan, B.C.. She also nursed her father who was dying from cancer. After his passing she returned to Summerland to continue her nursing career and to marry my father.  

At home, she helped my father with three shots in the arm each day (for asthma) and later tended to me when I got home after I had contracted polio in the early fifties.

She died in her 99th. year after a life time of loving, helping and comforting others.

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My maternal Grandmother, Isabel Banks Walker, was a Red Cross nurse at Camp Devens, MA during WWI.

Answer 10

Yes, I started nursing nursing school in 1975, was an LPN til 1989 when I graduated to RN. I am semi retired now. Worked in different areas of nursing but my speciality was MED Surg. I am currently in long term care at a nursing home. It's been a long journey but I have enjoyed all of my experiences.

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My husbands great grandmother was a nurse trained in England and emigrated to Alberta, Canada in the early 1900's, They lived across the river from a Blackfoot encampment and was called on to deliver babies there. She also administered nursing to anyone in the area. She walked by her wagon from Bow Island, to Medicine Hat. A very brave woman for her time.

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I am a registered nurse, my husband is a nurse practitioner, my mother in law is a nurse, my great aunt was a nurse, and my (soon to be daughter in law) is in nursing school!  Woo hoo!  ;)  Gotta love a nurse!

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I am a registered nurse, my husband, James, is a nurse practitioner, my cousin, David, is a nurse practitioner, my mother in law, Delores, is a nurse, my aunt, Bea, was a nurse, and my soon to be daughter in law, Jessica, is in nursing school!  ;)  Gotta love a nurse.  

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My father's sister Marjory Orton (1911-1992)  [Orton-274] was a career Nurse all of her working life. As a teenager she began to train as a mothercraft nurse at the Methodist Babies' Home, but discontinued that training to help care for her invalid mother. In 1933 she returned to training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, where she successively qualified in General Nursing, Obstetrics and Midwifery. During the War she worked with the RAAF Nursing Service, following which she returned to the Melbourne. In 1948/9 she had overseas nursing experience in London and the Netherlands. From 1949 to 1954 she was Deputy Lady Superintendent at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Between 1954 and 1961 she was Matron at the Presbyterian Babies' Home in Melbourne. After some years in retirement in McCrae, Vic., she went to live in the Moorfields Retirement community in Hawthorn. There she often assisted staff in the care of more elderly residents.

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I have been a nurse for 41 years.  I have worked in many different areas of nursing and in several states. It has been a great experience. Wishing all other nurses Happy Nurse Week.

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I became a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in 1979.  I remember wanting to be a nurse from being small girl and receiving a "Nurse Nancy" doll for Christmas.  The last 25 years I have worked in the outpatient clinic areas mostly in Family Medicine.  I loved most of my patients and many became family and friends.  I retired in 2014 from nursing and I think about some of my patients still.

My daughter became a RN in 2011.  She worked in the ICU until 3 years ago when she switched to Pre/Post Op heart surgery area and then several months ago to the Pain Control Procedures Area.

Answer 17

Just giving a shout out to Clara Barton and the American Red Cross. I worked with many nurses at the American Red Cross and when I was an EMT.

No nurses in my tree but two Doctors.

Answer 18

Yes!  My wife is a nurse!  I also credit my survival though childhood cancer to my nurse.  Truly angels on earth.

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Thank you for the ? - - Yes, we have  Betty Jeffrey OAM  Agnes Betty Jeffrey OAM (1908 - 2000) . . She was born 14 May 1908 in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, and was a PoW  - -

Betty Jeffrey, Second World War nurse, Vyner Brooke survivor, prisoner of war and author of the best-selling book, White coolies. Her family moved regularly while she was growing up, eventually settling in East Malvern, Victoria.

This is her    RSL https://rslvirtualwarmemorial.org.au/   Profile :  Betty Jeffrey    - which also has a Link back to WikiTree - - cheers - john.a

Answer 20

My cousin Mary L Chadwick b.1937 d.2009 was in US Army during Vietnam conflict she worked on front lines. She spent from 1959-1993 in the Army Nurses Corp. She retired with the rank of Colonel.