PORT HENRY. N.Y. — Kathleen (Shea) Brooks, 86, died on Friday, November 16th 2012 at the Horace Nye Nursing Home in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
A lifelong resident of Port Henry, Kathleen accelerated her graduation from Port Henry High School in order to enlist in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944 to join the war effort in WW II.
She attended nursing school at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and earned her M.S. from Plattsburgh State.
She worked as an RN at Moses Ludington and Mineville Hospitals, industrial nurse at Ti Mill, school nurse at Moriah Central, 3rd grade teacher at St. Patricks School in Port Henry, and librarian at Sherman Free Library in Port Henry, N.Y.
She enjoyed everything outdoors -walking, cycling, snowshoeing, canoeing, birds, flowers, trees, weeds, you name it. When stuck indoors, she liked reading and spending time with her grandchildren.
Her hobby was interviewing local residents for her oral history collection.
She was predeceased by parents, John Edward Shea and Elizabeth (Batterton) Shea; and siblings, Thomas and Dorothy Shea, Mary Carmel Aitner and Elizabeth Catanzarita.
A lifelong resident of Port Henry, Kathleen accelerated her graduation from Port Henry High School in order to enlist in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944 to join the war effort in WW II.
She attended nursing school at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and earned her M.S. from Plattsburgh State.
She worked as an RN at Moses Ludington and Mineville Hospitals, industrial nurse at Ti Mill, school nurse at Moriah Central, 3rd grade teacher at St. Patricks School in Port Henry, and librarian at Sherman Free Library in Port Henry, N.Y.
She enjoyed everything outdoors -walking, cycling, snowshoeing, canoeing, birds, flowers, trees, weeds, you name it. When stuck indoors, she liked reading and spending time with her grandchildren.
Her hobby was interviewing local residents for her oral history collection.
She was predeceased by parents, John Edward Shea and Elizabeth (Batterton) Shea; and siblings, Thomas and Dorothy Shea, Mary Carmel Aitner and Elizabeth Catanzarita.
PORT HENRY. N.Y. — Kathleen (Shea) Brooks, 86, died on Friday, November 16th 2012 at the Horace Nye Nursing Home in Elizabethtown, N.Y.
A lifelong resident of Port Henry, Kathleen accelerated her graduation from Port Henry High School in order to enlist in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944 to join the war effort in WW II.
She attended nursing school at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and earned her M.S. from Plattsburgh State.
She worked as an RN at Moses Ludington and Mineville Hospitals, industrial nurse at Ti Mill, school nurse at Moriah Central, 3rd grade teacher at St. Patricks School in Port Henry, and librarian at Sherman Free Library in Port Henry, N.Y.
She enjoyed everything outdoors -walking, cycling, snowshoeing, canoeing, birds, flowers, trees, weeds, you name it. When stuck indoors, she liked reading and spending time with her grandchildren.
Her hobby was interviewing local residents for her oral history collection.
She was predeceased by parents, John Edward Shea and Elizabeth (Batterton) Shea; and siblings, Thomas and Dorothy Shea, Mary Carmel Aitner and Elizabeth Catanzarita.
A lifelong resident of Port Henry, Kathleen accelerated her graduation from Port Henry High School in order to enlist in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in 1944 to join the war effort in WW II.
She attended nursing school at Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital and earned her M.S. from Plattsburgh State.
She worked as an RN at Moses Ludington and Mineville Hospitals, industrial nurse at Ti Mill, school nurse at Moriah Central, 3rd grade teacher at St. Patricks School in Port Henry, and librarian at Sherman Free Library in Port Henry, N.Y.
She enjoyed everything outdoors -walking, cycling, snowshoeing, canoeing, birds, flowers, trees, weeds, you name it. When stuck indoors, she liked reading and spending time with her grandchildren.
Her hobby was interviewing local residents for her oral history collection.
She was predeceased by parents, John Edward Shea and Elizabeth (Batterton) Shea; and siblings, Thomas and Dorothy Shea, Mary Carmel Aitner and Elizabeth Catanzarita.
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