Title	[Blossom Ellis in Nurse's Uniform, 1953]
Date	1953-03
Subject headings	United States--History--1945-
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963)
Service branch	Air Force--WAF Air Force--WAF Reserves
Item description	Blossom Ellis, in an Air Force Nurse uniform, seated in front of unknown facility, holding a puppy, March 1953.
Veteran's name	Ellis, Blossom Bernstein
Veteran's biography	Blossom Bernstein Ellis (1929-2012) of Brooklyn, New York, served in the U.S. Air Force Nurse Corps and Reserves from 1952 to 1962. Blossom B. Ellis was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 October 1929, one of five children born to Isadore Bernstein, a Russian immigrant, and Florence M. Bernstein. She graduated from Brooklyn High School for Homemaking and then attended nursing school at Maimonides Hospital in Brooklyn. Upon completing the nursing program, she continued working there as a general floor duty nurse. In November 1952, Ellis was commissioned into the U.S. Air Force and was sent to Gunter Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, for basic training. She was subsequently stationed at Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas; Royal Air Force Station Greenham Common in Berkshire, England; and Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California. Ellis met her future husband, William “Bill” Ellis, when she was in England, and they married on 16 June 1957. She ended her active duty status in September 1957 and was discharged from the reserves in June 1962. The Ellises had three children and lived in various places in the U.S. and abroad due to Bill Ellis' career in the U.S. Air Force. When he retired in 1974, the family settled in Liberty, North Carolina, where Ellis worked as a nurse at Randolph Hospital, Kellwood hosiery plant in Siler City, and Clapps Nursing Home. She retired from nursing in the late 1990s. Ellis died 18 November, 2012.
Place	San Antonio (Tex.)
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	WV0382 Blossom Ellis 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	WV0382.6.001
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	900814262

[Blossom Ellis in Nurse's Uniform, 1953]

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