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Title	[Hazel Jones and Dr. Kempe with cake and cinnamon buns, circa 1950]
Date	1950
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953 United States. Army--Women
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Army--Army Nurse Corps
Item description	Hazel Jones (right, in ANC white hospital uniform) and Dr. Kempe stand behind a table full of cake a cinnamon buns, circa 1950.
Veteran's name	Jones, Hazel Moore Meeks
Veteran's biography	Hazel Meeks Jones (1918-2005) of Taliaferro County, Georgia, served in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) from 1942 to 1965. Hazel Meeks Jones was born in 1918 to sharecroppers in Talliferro County, Georgia. She graduated from high school in Crawfordville and then completed three years of nursing school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta. Following graduation she worked at a tuberculosis sanitarium in Alto, Georgia . Jones enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) in 1942 and completed basic training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. She was assigned to the station hospital in Atlanta, where she worked as an operating room scrub nurse for a year and a half. In late 1943, Jones was sent overseas to the 372nd Station Hospital in Kalaikunda, India, where she remained until fall 1945. Upon her return to the United States, Jones was stationed at the Oliver General Hospital in Augusta as an ANC reservist. She then joined the regular army and was transferred to Tripler Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, where she served for four years during the Korean War mostly working on the ENT (ear nose and throat) service. In March 1952, Jones was transferred to Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C., and in August of that year she married Bob Jones, an army medical supply coworker from Tripler. Jones was later sent to Ireland General Hospital at Fort Knox, Kentucky, before being transferred overseas to the 2nd General Hospital in Germany, where she was in charge of the neurosurgery ward. In 1961, Jones returned to the United States and was stationed at Womack Army Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She retired from the army in 1965 as a major, and the Jones' continued to reside in Fayetteville. Jones died 17 November, 2005.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
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	WV0244 Hazel Jones 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	WV0244.6.003
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	900812695

[Hazel Jones and Dr. Kempe with cake and cinnamon buns, circa 1950]

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