Katherine spelled her name "Catherine" until about the time she married. She walked into the McKees Rocks Hospital, PA and was on-the-job trained and graduated in 1906 in a class of two. She was one of the first women in PA to attain the status of "Registered Nurse."
She once volunteered to be quarantined in a barn with a Smallpox patient. Several weeks later, she threw open the barn door and walked out with a cured patient. She recalls that this patient was the first man in PA to survive Smallpox.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star lodge in Fort Wayne, IN and the Christian Memorial Church in Ann Arbor, MI.
She was refused life insurance at age 45, but lived another 45 year!
She was featured on the front page of the Scottsdale (AZ) Daily Progress' Dec. 7, 1967 Women's page for her "lifetime of helping others."
She once volunteered to be quarantined in a barn with a Smallpox patient. Several weeks later, she threw open the barn door and walked out with a cured patient. She recalls that this patient was the first man in PA to survive Smallpox.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star lodge in Fort Wayne, IN and the Christian Memorial Church in Ann Arbor, MI.
She was refused life insurance at age 45, but lived another 45 year!
She was featured on the front page of the Scottsdale (AZ) Daily Progress' Dec. 7, 1967 Women's page for her "lifetime of helping others."
Katherine spelled her name "Catherine" until about the time she married. She walked into the McKees Rocks Hospital, PA and was on-the-job trained and graduated in 1906 in a class of two. She was one of the first women in PA to attain the status of "Registered Nurse."
She once volunteered to be quarantined in a barn with a Smallpox patient. Several weeks later, she threw open the barn door and walked out with a cured patient. She recalls that this patient was the first man in PA to survive Smallpox.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star lodge in Fort Wayne, IN and the Christian Memorial Church in Ann Arbor, MI.
She was refused life insurance at age 45, but lived another 45 year!
She was featured on the front page of the Scottsdale (AZ) Daily Progress' Dec. 7, 1967 Women's page for her "lifetime of helping others."
She once volunteered to be quarantined in a barn with a Smallpox patient. Several weeks later, she threw open the barn door and walked out with a cured patient. She recalls that this patient was the first man in PA to survive Smallpox.
She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star lodge in Fort Wayne, IN and the Christian Memorial Church in Ann Arbor, MI.
She was refused life insurance at age 45, but lived another 45 year!
She was featured on the front page of the Scottsdale (AZ) Daily Progress' Dec. 7, 1967 Women's page for her "lifetime of helping others."
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