Age 97 - of Salem, formerly of Everett - daughter of the late Albert and Amy Bradford (Jarvis) Nurse.
In 1941, during World War II, Miss Nurse joined the U.S. Army, and was stationed in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of operation.
She is survived by her cousins and friends.
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The Brookhouse Home, a Derby St residence for elderly women that dates back to the Civil War dedicated a flagpole on Tuesday for a longtime resident Amy Nurse, who died at 97. She was legally blind, lovable, spirited and unforgettable.
Nurse was a pioneer in her day, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing from BU, doing graduate work at Columbia Universit and publishing articles on nursing.
Nurse Nurse -that was her name-enlisted in the US Army at the start of WWII and served in the South Pacific. She worked in one of the country's finest pediatric medical units and continued working as a nurse into the 1970s.
After a few difficult years, she arrived at the Brookhouse Home in the late 1990s "with the clothes on my back and $20," as she liked to say.
She was a character. She often sat in the sun by a window, greeting visitors with, "Amy Nurse, Army nurse ."
She loved poetry, reciting lines from Emily Dickinson and Edna St Vincent Millay. She wrote out her life story in 5 spiral notebooks, which she donated to Radcliffe's women's studies library.
One of those invited to speak at the ceremony was another impressive woman-Martha Ryan, a nurse from Salem and retired major in the US Army who served in Iraq.
Amy would have liked that.
(Salem News May 16, 2014 by Staff Writer Tom Dalton)
In 1941, during World War II, Miss Nurse joined the U.S. Army, and was stationed in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of operation.
She is survived by her cousins and friends.
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The Brookhouse Home, a Derby St residence for elderly women that dates back to the Civil War dedicated a flagpole on Tuesday for a longtime resident Amy Nurse, who died at 97. She was legally blind, lovable, spirited and unforgettable.
Nurse was a pioneer in her day, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing from BU, doing graduate work at Columbia Universit and publishing articles on nursing.
Nurse Nurse -that was her name-enlisted in the US Army at the start of WWII and served in the South Pacific. She worked in one of the country's finest pediatric medical units and continued working as a nurse into the 1970s.
After a few difficult years, she arrived at the Brookhouse Home in the late 1990s "with the clothes on my back and $20," as she liked to say.
She was a character. She often sat in the sun by a window, greeting visitors with, "Amy Nurse, Army nurse ."
She loved poetry, reciting lines from Emily Dickinson and Edna St Vincent Millay. She wrote out her life story in 5 spiral notebooks, which she donated to Radcliffe's women's studies library.
One of those invited to speak at the ceremony was another impressive woman-Martha Ryan, a nurse from Salem and retired major in the US Army who served in Iraq.
Amy would have liked that.
(Salem News May 16, 2014 by Staff Writer Tom Dalton)
Age 97 - of Salem, formerly of Everett - daughter of the late Albert and Amy Bradford (Jarvis) Nurse.
In 1941, during World War II, Miss Nurse joined the U.S. Army, and was stationed in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of operation.
She is survived by her cousins and friends.
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The Brookhouse Home, a Derby St residence for elderly women that dates back to the Civil War dedicated a flagpole on Tuesday for a longtime resident Amy Nurse, who died at 97. She was legally blind, lovable, spirited and unforgettable.
Nurse was a pioneer in her day, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing from BU, doing graduate work at Columbia Universit and publishing articles on nursing.
Nurse Nurse -that was her name-enlisted in the US Army at the start of WWII and served in the South Pacific. She worked in one of the country's finest pediatric medical units and continued working as a nurse into the 1970s.
After a few difficult years, she arrived at the Brookhouse Home in the late 1990s "with the clothes on my back and $20," as she liked to say.
She was a character. She often sat in the sun by a window, greeting visitors with, "Amy Nurse, Army nurse ."
She loved poetry, reciting lines from Emily Dickinson and Edna St Vincent Millay. She wrote out her life story in 5 spiral notebooks, which she donated to Radcliffe's women's studies library.
One of those invited to speak at the ceremony was another impressive woman-Martha Ryan, a nurse from Salem and retired major in the US Army who served in Iraq.
Amy would have liked that.
(Salem News May 16, 2014 by Staff Writer Tom Dalton)
In 1941, during World War II, Miss Nurse joined the U.S. Army, and was stationed in the Asiatic Pacific Theater of operation.
She is survived by her cousins and friends.
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The Brookhouse Home, a Derby St residence for elderly women that dates back to the Civil War dedicated a flagpole on Tuesday for a longtime resident Amy Nurse, who died at 97. She was legally blind, lovable, spirited and unforgettable.
Nurse was a pioneer in her day, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing from BU, doing graduate work at Columbia Universit and publishing articles on nursing.
Nurse Nurse -that was her name-enlisted in the US Army at the start of WWII and served in the South Pacific. She worked in one of the country's finest pediatric medical units and continued working as a nurse into the 1970s.
After a few difficult years, she arrived at the Brookhouse Home in the late 1990s "with the clothes on my back and $20," as she liked to say.
She was a character. She often sat in the sun by a window, greeting visitors with, "Amy Nurse, Army nurse ."
She loved poetry, reciting lines from Emily Dickinson and Edna St Vincent Millay. She wrote out her life story in 5 spiral notebooks, which she donated to Radcliffe's women's studies library.
One of those invited to speak at the ceremony was another impressive woman-Martha Ryan, a nurse from Salem and retired major in the US Army who served in Iraq.
Amy would have liked that.
(Salem News May 16, 2014 by Staff Writer Tom Dalton)
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