Wartime, VA nurse Trudy Fann reflects on full life By Jeff Keeling, May 21, 2015 From attending a two-room schoolhouse on the Cherokee Indian Reservation to World War II nursing duty on the Pacific Coast and a post-war career … Continue reading →
Dr. Orlander L. Merritt, age 91, of Morristown, TN, passed away on Monday, May 31, 2021. Dr. Merritt was born and reared in Washburn (Puncheon Camp Community), TN, graduating from Washburn High School and then from Lincoln Memorial University … Continue reading →
This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. There is no information in the finding aid regarding completeness of the list. The … Continue reading →
This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. There is no information in the finding aid regarding completeness of the list. The … Continue reading →
This list is taken from the TN State Library & Archives finding aid for Record Group 97. Accuracy of spelling and dates have not been verified. The list is incomplete, based on newspaper reports of graduates. In 1948, Newell Hospital … Continue reading →
Data in the table below were drawn from rosters compiled on American Nurses Association Form “A” with the heading Tennessee State Nurses Association — District 4 — West-Ellis Hospital Alumnae Association — Address 612 West 9th St., Chattanooga, Tenn. These … Continue reading →
Local Nurses Going Over Sea Chattanooga Furnishes Goodly Number of Graduates for War Work One Is now in France Applicants Well Qualified and No Reason Why They Should Not Be Accepted If the graduate nurses from the different hospitals in … Continue reading →
Carver Hospital Served Blacks for 15 Years by Phoebe Pollitt, Ph.D., R.N. — Published September 6th, 2015 Walden Hospital, the original African-American hospital in Chattanooga at Douglas and Eighth streets, opened in 1915. Founder Emma Wheeler added the nursing school … Continue reading →
Evelyn Gamblin Bryan died May 15, 2021, at the age of 94. She was a World War II Cadet Corps Nurse and 1945 graduate of Appalachian Hospital in Johnson City, Tennessee. After “returing” from nursing, Evelyn spent 30 years as … Continue reading →
KGH nurses would say “Of course she did” in response to this article about Almyra Reams. “She trained at the General, after all.” Almyra grew up in Franklin, Tennessee, and entered training relatively late — about age 28. Soon after … Continue reading →
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