Papers include military record and report of separation and registered nurse certificate from the North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners.
Mary Louise Brantley was born 1922 October 3 in Nash County, North Carolina to Sherwood and Mary Ethel (Lamm) Brantley. She served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the European and Pacific theaters. She was a Wilson County public Health Nurse from 1948 to 1978. In 1946, Brantley married Stanley S. Ordess and they had two sons, Mark and Jody. She died 2009 November 28.
Papers include military record and report of separation and registered nurse certificate from the North Carolina Board of Nurse Examiners.
2004 December 9: "Tiffany" white nursing uniform (belonged to daughter-in-law Sandra Joyner). Gift of Louise Ordess.
1997 October 20: 8 textbooks for student nurses. Gift of Louise Ordess.
1997 March 1: First Lieutenant's bars, Watts Hospital School of Nursing coffee mug. Gift of Louise Ordess.
1997 February 6: diploma from Watts Hospital Training School for Nurses, NC Board of Nurse Examiners certificate, military discharge and separation papers, photograph, service ribbons, public health nurse's bag, 2 pins, public health nurse's cap, Watts Hospital nurse's cape. Gift of Louise Ordess.
Gift of Louise Ordess
Processing revised by Ashley Williams, 2015
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Art of Nursing (CD 01.44), The Country Doctor Museum, at The William E. Laupus Health Sciences Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA.
Related artifacts held at The Country Doctor Museum, Bailey, North Carolina.