[Ruth King Garrett, circa 1945]
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Title |
[Ruth King Garrett, circa 1945] |
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Date |
1945 |
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Date approximate? |
yes |
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Subject headings |
World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army--Women |
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Era |
World War II era (1940-1946) |
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Service branch |
Army--Army Nurse Corps |
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Item description |
Portrait of Ruth King Garrett in Army Nurse Corps uniform, circa 1945. |
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Veteran's name |
Garrett, Ruth King |
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Veteran's biography |
Ruth King Garrett (1923-2015) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1946, followed by a long civilian career in nursing .
Ruth King Garrett was born on 31 May, 1923, in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating from Rankin High School, she briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Inspired by a health course at the university, she began nurses' training at Saint Leo's Hospital in the city and graduated from the program in 1944. She then worked at a polio hospital in Hickory, North Carolina .
Garrett joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) on January 31, 1945 and was sent to Fort Rucker, Alabama, for basic training. She was then sent to Battey General Hospital in Rome, Georgia, where she stayed for five months. In summer of 1945 she was assigned to overseas duty and traveled to California to meet the USS Comfort, which arrived in Manila, Philippines in August 1945. While in Manila, Garrett treated recently released U.S. prisoners of war and other wounded soldiers in temporary hospital units. She returned to the U.S. on February 1, 1946 and was discharged from the ANC on March 15, 1946 .
Garrett returned to Greensboro and worked at LeBauers Healthcare for a few months before moving to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to work at the Veterans Affairs [VA] Medical Center. A year later she returned to Greensboro and married Clifford Garrett, an army veteran, on 27 July 1947. They had three children together, one of whom became a nurse. Garrett retired from nursing in the mid-1980s. Garrett died on 5 January, 2015. |
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Type |
image |
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Original format |
photographs |
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Image type |
Formal portrait |
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Original publisher |
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified] |
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Contributing institution |
Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries |
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Source collection |
WV0392 Ruth King Garrett Papers |
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Rights statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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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. Photo by Manning Portraits, Greensboro, NC |
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Object ID |
WV0392.6.001 |
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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/ |
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OCLC number |
900814792 |
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