Irene Teel Sherbern, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marcellus Teel of Columbus Junction, has enlisted in the WAVES and will leave sometime in November to attend the U.S. Naval Training school, Bronx, N.Y. She is the wife of Pvt. Kenneth M. Sherbern, who is stationed with the mechanized cavalry in France and has been employed at the First Trust & Saving bank. She resides with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cohn, 208 McClellen boulevard.
Seaman Sherbern is the third member of her family to enter service. A brother, also of the navy is Randall Teel, seaman, first class, stationed in the South Pacific. Pvt. Glenn Teel is a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines.
In preparation for her naval service, Mrs. Sherbern has been doing volunteer work for the naval medical department at St. Ambrose college.
Source: The Daily Times, September 21, 1944
DAVENPORT WAVE LOOKS OVER DISPLAY -- A display of medical equipment at the U.S. naval training school, the Bronx, New York, interests Apprentice Seaman, Irene T. Sherbern of the WAVES, who hopes to be assigned to the hospital corps. Seaman Sherbern's husband, Pvt. Kenneth M. Sherbern, is stationed in France. Pvt. Glenn E. Teel, a brother, is a prisoner of war on the Philippine Islands. Another brother, Randall Teel, of the navy, is serving aboard the U.S.S. Mobile in the South Pacific. The newly enlisted WAVE is the daughter of Mrs. Laura M. Teel, 208 McClellan boulevard, Davenport.
Source: The Daily Times, December 26, 1944
Mrs. Irene Sherbern, daughter of Mrs. Laura M. Teel, Columbus Junction, who joined the WAVES a year ago, now on the nurses' staff in the navy hospital, Shoemaker, Calif., is expected home on a visit soon. Her husband, Pvt. Kenneth Sherbern, is with the army in France. Her brother, Randall L. Teel, U.S. navy, is stationed in the Philippines.
Source: Quad City Times, July 15, 1945
