Papers include Goforth's correspondence with the Navy Department following World War II and photograph from time at Woodward-Herring Hospital.
Joyce Nadine Parker was born 1921 September 2 in Coleman County, Texas to Everett and Myrtle (Odom) Parker. She attended nursing school at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. Just after graduating, she was commissioned as an officer in the Navy Nurse Corps. While training on the west coast, she met her future husband Ensign Foy Goforth. After training, she served for hospitalized servicemen's children in San Diego and the Hawaiian Islands. Following the war, Parker and Goforth married and moved eastward for graduate school before settling in Wilson, North Carolina. She served as the director of nurses from August 1952 to August 1954 at Woodward-Herring Hospital. The Goforth's had two sons, Foy Nelson and John Parker. She died 2014 March 17 in Kinston, North Carolina.
Papers include Goforth's correspondence with the Navy Department following World War II and photograph from time at Woodward-Herring Hospital.
1997 July 7: 3 pins, 2 portraits, Navy nurse uniform, cape, cap, pitcher, shoes, white nurse uniform, watch, Navy footlocker with tray. Gift of Joyce P. Goforth.
Gift of Joyce P. Goforth
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.
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