First Lieutenant Emma Costlow, nurse

Creator

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Identifier

20029047

Description

After 26 months as an Army nurse in the Southwest Pacific and the Philippines, First Lieutenant Emma Costlow returned to the States as a patient. The topical skin infection has been treated and she is spending a 30-day leave visiting her sister Mrs. W. F. Snelson, and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Costlow. Lieutenant Costlow was a surgical nurse with the 84th Station Hospital. Lieutenant Costlow and her roommate from the City-County School of Nursing, Lieutenant Mary Mayes, enlisted together immediately after their graduation in 1942. Costlow is engage to Captain Edward Gorenflo , a bomber pilot, who she met in the first night she arrived in Australia. Published in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition, July 31, 1945.

Archival Date

1945-07-26

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-355

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Costlow, Emma (1LT); Nurses; Snelson, W. F. (Mrs.); Costlow, J. W. (Mr.); Costlow, J. W. (Mrs.); United States. Army. Station Hospital, 84th; Mayes, Mary (Lt.); Gorenflo, Edward (Capt.); City-County Hospital School of Nursing