Links
I don't have hot links yet, but you can go to "findagrave.com" and copy or type the memorial number in the memorial space and hit submit, skipping all the other boxes, and it will bring you to the nurse's gravesite:
Helen J. "Miss" (Egolff) Gray (Chief Nurse, 1st Lt., Arlington National Cemetery
www.findagrave.com/memorial/218074547/helen-gray
Irene Rose (Gabryolek) Wesner (1st Lt.)
www.findagrave.com/memorial/90753638/irene-r-wesner
(Her obituary says she served April 30, 1941-June 30, 1946)
Alma Charlotte (Koehler) Schuetz (Captain)
www.findagrave.com/memorial/72827949/alma-c-schuetz
(Her obituary says she served eight years in the Pacific Theater as a Captain in the Army Nurse Corps.)
Juanita "Nita" Hortense (Hamilton) Webster
www.findagrave.com/memorial/58299601/juanita-hortense-webster
Maude Lillian (Patterson) Thompson
www.findagrave.com/memorial/110880108/maude-p-thompson
Mary Dorothea (Dorothy) (Kravitz) Kehoe (Captain, Long Island National Cemetery)
www.findagrave.com/memorial/82593271/mary-dorothy-kenoe
Mary enlisted about July 1940, served 3 years in the Southwest Pacific, and was honorably discharged at Valley Forge General Hospital June 1945.
Ruth Ada (Baucher) Blades (2nd Lt.)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/237429619/Ruth-Ada-blades
Sarah H. Patterson
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/152446753/s-h-Patterson
Jean Webster (Lt.)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166286717/jean-Webster-Seawell
Mary Louise (Lou) (Jacobs) Ream
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/158358244/m-louise-ream
Magaret Louise "Blackie" (Blackwood) Butler (1st Lt.)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/90365713/margaret-louise-butler
Alma Elizabeth "Dollie" (Madison) Van De Steeg
https://www.findsgrave.com/memorial/51065559/alma-e-van_de_steeg
Jane "Janie" Stevens (Godwin) Foster (1st Lt.)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/30737683
Edith Vowell (Major)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117817292/Edith-vowell
Edith enlisted May 1, 1941 and was discharged December 1, 1963.
Florence Elizabeth (Green) Brooks
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32111234/Florence-green
Lieutenant Green served from December 7, 1941 to June 28, 1944.
Marie F. "Woodie" Woodward (Major)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35886432/marie-f-Woodward
Major Woodward served in WW2, Korean War, and Vietnam.
Edith W. (Whittaker) Sistek
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/239042170/Edith-w-sistek
Introduction
Only after moving in and taking care of my mother-in-law from 2012 until her death at home in 2019, did I realize her role and that of her sister nurses in WWII. I was her son-in-law for 50 years but only when I went through her scrapbook and other memorabilia did I realize how much this Band of Sisters did in response to Pearl Harbor.
I hope this gives a renewed attention to these forgotten heros.
I am using a new website template that I'm trying to learn to use, so it's a work in progress. I now have a list of 17 of the 18 nurses with links to their gravesites.
The only one I have not yet identified gravesites for and will work on now is:
Willie Helen Lawson (born in Athens, Tennesse)
The nicknames are those that my late mother-in-law, Ruth, wrote as she listed the nurses in her scrapbook, below the photo of the nurses in New Guinea.