US Army Nurse. Leading figure among a handful of US Army nurses captured by the Japanese in early 1942 upon the surrender of Corregidor. She was evacuated to the prison camp at the University of Santo Tomas where she cared for fellow prisoners, including survivors of the death march and Japanese abuses, from mid 1942 until early 1945 when she was liberated. Less political than some of her fellow nurses, she led a quiet and successful life as a military nurse through her early and mysterious death -- she was found burned over 40 percent of her body, and the manner of her death remains undetermined to this day. Recipient of the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. Like her fellow Ark-La-Tex nurse compatriot Hattie Brantley of East Texas, she was known as one of the "Angels of Bataan."
US Army Nurse. Leading figure among a handful of US Army nurses captured by the Japanese in early 1942 upon the surrender of Corregidor. She was evacuated to the prison camp at the University of Santo Tomas where she cared for fellow prisoners, including survivors of the death march and Japanese abuses, from mid 1942 until early 1945 when she was liberated. Less political than some of her fellow nurses, she led a quiet and successful life as a military nurse through her early and mysterious death -- she was found burned over 40 percent of her body, and the manner of her death remains undetermined to this day. Recipient of the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. Like her fellow Ark-La-Tex nurse compatriot Hattie Brantley of East Texas, she was known as one of the "Angels of Bataan."
Bio by: John Andrew Prime
