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Oldest nurse in Maine honored
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Major Eva M. Price, 100, is Maine’s oldest living nurse. She was honored by Janet Michaud, the VFW Women’s Commander, for her long years of service as an army nurse. The ceremony was held on Veteran’s eve at the University Hall of the University College of Bangor.
Price had one of the longest stints as a nurse, beginning from the World War II. She was born in 1909 in Brewer. Women of those days did not have many career options and often became a nurse. Price too, had registered herself as a nurse with the U.S. Army. She was an example that numerous women followed for generations later. In her long 20 years nursing career, Price has served soldiers who were wounded in Philippines. Later she went on to nurse soldiers wounded in the atomic catastrophe in Hiroshima. After the World War, Price served as a nurse in Korea and Germany. In the last five years as a nurse, she was at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre in Washington D.C.
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