Buena Vista County

 
Lorraine L. Westholm

 

 

 

 

3 to Colorado As Army Nurses

Three nurses, graduates of Iowa Lutheran hospital, are to report to Camp Carson, Colo., preparatory to become nurses, it was announced Tuesday.

The nurses are Iola Eyerly, Winterset, Ia; Margaret Bjork and Lorraine Westholm, Albert City, Ia.

The three young women were members of the Red Cross student reserves.

Source: DesMoines Tribune, November 14, 1944

Lorraine L. Westholm Hare was born Sept. 5, 1921 to Walter E. and Betty E. Peterson Westholm. She died June 1990.

Lorraine served in World War II with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.

Source: ancestry.com