Title	[Portrait of Faith Hawkins, circa 1943]
Date	1943
Date approximate?	yes
Subject headings	World War, 1939-1945
Era	World War II era (1940-1946)
Service branch	Cadet Nurse Corps
Item description	Portrait of Faith Hawkins, in her Cadet Nurse Corps gray winter suit and Montgomery beret, circa 1943.
Veteran's name	Hawkins, Faith Geretha Sparks
Veteran's biography	Faith Sparks Hawkins (b. 1927) of Wilkes County, North Carolina, trained as a nurse with the Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1947, then practiced at Veterans Administration hospitals and facilities in North Carolina . Faith Sparks Hawkins was born in Forsyth County, North Carolina, on 22 February 1927 and raised in Wilkes County. She was the fourth of five children. She graduated from Wilkesboro High School in 1943, and worked in a local store before attending nursing school . From 1944 to 1947, Hawkins attended nursing school at H.F. Long Hospital in Statesville, North Carolina, through the Cadet Nurse Corps. She then returned to North Wilkesboro and worked in obstetrics and delivery at Fred C. Hubbard Hospital, and also did another year of training at Queens College in Charlotte. Hawkins also worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the late 1940s and the Crile Veterans Administration Hospital in Ohio in the early 1950s . Faith Hawkins married Hal Hawkins in 1950 and had four children. They lived in Wilkes County, where Hal Hawkins had a medical practice and Faith Hawkins continued her nursing career.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
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	WV0325 Faith S. Hawkins Papers
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Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0325.6.001
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	900813201

[Portrait of Faith Hawkins, circa 1943]

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