3 MORE NURSES JOIN SERVICES
Leave Positions at Hospital Here
Three more Iowa Methodist hospital nurses have resigned their positions to accept commissions as nurses in the armed forces.
Miss Jean Stevens, a graduate of Iowa Methodist and formerly from Iowa Falls, Ia., has reported for service with the navy nurse corps at the naval hospital at San Diego, Cal. She is an ensign.
Miss Ruth V. Speidel of Bondurant, Ia., has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the army and is stationed at the army air force technical school, Sioux Falls, S.D. She is a graduate of the Iowa Lutheran hospital school of nursing and has been employed at Iowa Methodist two years.
Miss Zoe Henkle, a graduate of St Luke's hospital school of nursing at Cedar Rapids, Ia., will report for service as an ensign with the navy nurse corps at the naval hospital, San Diego, Cal., next Tuesday. Her home is at Urbana, Ia.
Source: The DesMoines Register, November 11, 1942 (photo included)
Iowa Nurse 1st in Reich
Lt. Ruth Speidel, daughter of John Speidel, Bondurant, Ia., has the distinction of being the first American flight nurse to arrive
in Germany in the first C-47 transport plane, the air-service command of the United States strategic air forces in Europe has announced.
Lieutenant Speidel is a graduate of Iowa Lutheran hospital here. She joined the army nurse corps in November, 1942, received her overseas training at Bowman Field, Ky., and sailed for England in January 1944.
Her landing in a C-47 was her 80th air evacuation flight. On her return trip to England she brought back patient No.35,815 for hospitalization.
She is a graduate of Washington, Ia., high school and attended the junior college there. She has two brothers serving in the Pacific, First Lt. John Archer Speidel and Mark Speidel, petty officer, first class.
Source: DesMoines Tribune, April 26, 1945 (photo included)
