Mildred Josephine Wagner Powell, Nevada's first state nutritionist, died Nov. 26, 2017, at Good Samaritan Society — Prescott Valley nursing home in Prescott, Arizona. She was 98. The cause was from pneumonia complications.
Mrs. Powell, a West Texas native, earned her bachelor's degree in education and nutrition at Texas Tech University in 1940 and a master's degree in nutrition in University of Texas — Austin in 1944.
Before World War II, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietician at the Memorial Baptist Hospital in Houston. She then worked at Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, which later became known as the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, in Tennessee during the war.
Mrs. Powell met her husband, Robert H. Powell from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The couple married in Pennsylvania on Jan. 1, 1946, and moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her husband worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1958, Mrs. Powell and her family moved to Rangoon, Burma, where her husband was employed for a two-year project at the Union of Burma Applied Research Institute, an atomic energy division dedicated to research in nuclear technology. While living in Rangoon, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietary consultant at the Yangon Seventh Day Adventist Hospital. She also volunteered through the Methodist church, teaching ex-prostitutes tailoring.
The family returned to the U.S. in 1961 and relocated to Reno, Nevada, where Mrs. Powell worked as a nutritionist for several nursing homes and small hospitals. In 1968, she became the first nutrition specialist at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She retired from that position in 1977.
She was a woman of deep faith and in Reno was the youth group leader in her church. While living in Idaho Falls with her daughter, she attended CrossPoint Community Church.
Her parents, Robert E. Lee Wagner and Isabel Prichard Wagner; brothers, Charlie and Lowell; sisters, Bobbie Miller and Totsy Rosenbaum; and husband, Robert Powell, predecease her. She is survived by her brother, William Wagner; children, Robert Powell and Susan Bunnell; grandchildren, Karlyn Powell Healy, Farran Powell, Paul Bunnell and Deborah Bunnell; and great-grandchildren, Julian Bunnell Resk, Thomas Healy and Alice Lechliter.
She will be buried at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada, alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Published by Post Register from Nov. 28 to Nov. 29, 2017.
Mrs. Powell, a West Texas native, earned her bachelor's degree in education and nutrition at Texas Tech University in 1940 and a master's degree in nutrition in University of Texas — Austin in 1944.
Before World War II, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietician at the Memorial Baptist Hospital in Houston. She then worked at Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, which later became known as the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, in Tennessee during the war.
Mrs. Powell met her husband, Robert H. Powell from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The couple married in Pennsylvania on Jan. 1, 1946, and moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her husband worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1958, Mrs. Powell and her family moved to Rangoon, Burma, where her husband was employed for a two-year project at the Union of Burma Applied Research Institute, an atomic energy division dedicated to research in nuclear technology. While living in Rangoon, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietary consultant at the Yangon Seventh Day Adventist Hospital. She also volunteered through the Methodist church, teaching ex-prostitutes tailoring.
The family returned to the U.S. in 1961 and relocated to Reno, Nevada, where Mrs. Powell worked as a nutritionist for several nursing homes and small hospitals. In 1968, she became the first nutrition specialist at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She retired from that position in 1977.
She was a woman of deep faith and in Reno was the youth group leader in her church. While living in Idaho Falls with her daughter, she attended CrossPoint Community Church.
Her parents, Robert E. Lee Wagner and Isabel Prichard Wagner; brothers, Charlie and Lowell; sisters, Bobbie Miller and Totsy Rosenbaum; and husband, Robert Powell, predecease her. She is survived by her brother, William Wagner; children, Robert Powell and Susan Bunnell; grandchildren, Karlyn Powell Healy, Farran Powell, Paul Bunnell and Deborah Bunnell; and great-grandchildren, Julian Bunnell Resk, Thomas Healy and Alice Lechliter.
She will be buried at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada, alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Published by Post Register from Nov. 28 to Nov. 29, 2017.
Mildred Josephine Wagner Powell, Nevada's first state nutritionist, died Nov. 26, 2017, at Good Samaritan Society — Prescott Valley nursing home in Prescott, Arizona. She was 98. The cause was from pneumonia complications.
Mrs. Powell, a West Texas native, earned her bachelor's degree in education and nutrition at Texas Tech University in 1940 and a master's degree in nutrition in University of Texas — Austin in 1944.
Before World War II, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietician at the Memorial Baptist Hospital in Houston. She then worked at Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, which later became known as the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, in Tennessee during the war.
Mrs. Powell met her husband, Robert H. Powell from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The couple married in Pennsylvania on Jan. 1, 1946, and moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her husband worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1958, Mrs. Powell and her family moved to Rangoon, Burma, where her husband was employed for a two-year project at the Union of Burma Applied Research Institute, an atomic energy division dedicated to research in nuclear technology. While living in Rangoon, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietary consultant at the Yangon Seventh Day Adventist Hospital. She also volunteered through the Methodist church, teaching ex-prostitutes tailoring.
The family returned to the U.S. in 1961 and relocated to Reno, Nevada, where Mrs. Powell worked as a nutritionist for several nursing homes and small hospitals. In 1968, she became the first nutrition specialist at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She retired from that position in 1977.
She was a woman of deep faith and in Reno was the youth group leader in her church. While living in Idaho Falls with her daughter, she attended CrossPoint Community Church.
Her parents, Robert E. Lee Wagner and Isabel Prichard Wagner; brothers, Charlie and Lowell; sisters, Bobbie Miller and Totsy Rosenbaum; and husband, Robert Powell, predecease her. She is survived by her brother, William Wagner; children, Robert Powell and Susan Bunnell; grandchildren, Karlyn Powell Healy, Farran Powell, Paul Bunnell and Deborah Bunnell; and great-grandchildren, Julian Bunnell Resk, Thomas Healy and Alice Lechliter.
She will be buried at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada, alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Published by Post Register from Nov. 28 to Nov. 29, 2017.
Mrs. Powell, a West Texas native, earned her bachelor's degree in education and nutrition at Texas Tech University in 1940 and a master's degree in nutrition in University of Texas — Austin in 1944.
Before World War II, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietician at the Memorial Baptist Hospital in Houston. She then worked at Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant, which later became known as the Milan Army Ammunition Plant, in Tennessee during the war.
Mrs. Powell met her husband, Robert H. Powell from Uniontown, Pennsylvania, at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. The couple married in Pennsylvania on Jan. 1, 1946, and moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where her husband worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
In 1958, Mrs. Powell and her family moved to Rangoon, Burma, where her husband was employed for a two-year project at the Union of Burma Applied Research Institute, an atomic energy division dedicated to research in nuclear technology. While living in Rangoon, Mrs. Powell worked as a dietary consultant at the Yangon Seventh Day Adventist Hospital. She also volunteered through the Methodist church, teaching ex-prostitutes tailoring.
The family returned to the U.S. in 1961 and relocated to Reno, Nevada, where Mrs. Powell worked as a nutritionist for several nursing homes and small hospitals. In 1968, she became the first nutrition specialist at the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She retired from that position in 1977.
She was a woman of deep faith and in Reno was the youth group leader in her church. While living in Idaho Falls with her daughter, she attended CrossPoint Community Church.
Her parents, Robert E. Lee Wagner and Isabel Prichard Wagner; brothers, Charlie and Lowell; sisters, Bobbie Miller and Totsy Rosenbaum; and husband, Robert Powell, predecease her. She is survived by her brother, William Wagner; children, Robert Powell and Susan Bunnell; grandchildren, Karlyn Powell Healy, Farran Powell, Paul Bunnell and Deborah Bunnell; and great-grandchildren, Julian Bunnell Resk, Thomas Healy and Alice Lechliter.
She will be buried at the Northern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Fernley, Nevada, alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, please make contributions to the Wounded Warrior Project.
Published by Post Register from Nov. 28 to Nov. 29, 2017.
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