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Title	[Edna Andrews Weston in NNC uniform, circa 1944]
Date	1944
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945 United States. Navy--Women
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Navy--Navy Nurse Corps
Item description	Edna Andrews Weston, circa 1944, stands outside wearing the Navy Nurse Corps navy blue uniform and 1944 service hat with white top, and holding gloves.
Veteran's name	Weston, Edna Andrews
Veteran's biography	Edna Andrews Weston of Wilkes County, North Carolina, a career nurse, served in the Navy Nurse Corps from January 1944 to October 1946 . Edna Andrews Weston grew up on a farm in Wilkes County, North Carolina, and graduated from Wilkesboro High School in 1937. She went to nurses training at Davis Hospital in Statesville, North Carolina, from 1939 to 1942, and then continued to work there until January 1944, when she joined the Navy Nurse Corps. Weston received training in Portsmouth, Virginia, for four months, before being transferred to the naval base in Charleston, South Carolina. A year later, in Weston was sent to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, to be a dietitian for six months. Her last duty station was in San Diego, California, where she became a supervisor in the Naval Hospital. Weston was discharged in October 1946 . For two years, Weston worked at a veterans hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She then married Carlyle Weston, settled in Statesville, and returned to Davis Hospital. She and her husband had three children. In 1959, they moved to Boomer, North Carolina, and Weston took a job at Blackwater Hospital until retiring in 1985.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Full uniform
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0091 Edna Andrews Weston Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0091.6.002
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900811132

[Edna Andrews Weston in NNC uniform, circa 1944]

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