Interviewer
Gladys Peterson
Files
Description
Ethel Reed recalls growing up while moving throughout western Montana in the 1920s and 30s. She discusses her decision to become a nurse and her training at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Washington. She talks about her nursing work in Kalispell, Montana before she served as an Army nurse during World War II. She talks about her service experience as a nurse and the service culture in Washington state, Hawaii, and Guam during the war. She discusses treating soldiers and Marines in the Pacific, including from the Battle of Attu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa. When she was discharged, she became a public health nurse in Lake County (Montana) before mothering children and continuing more informal work as a private care nurse. Reed’s daughter, Deanna Noonan, discusses how her experience becoming a nurse in the 1970s and 80s in Montana differed from her mother’s and supplements Reed’s memories with her point of view.
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Document Type
Oral History
Subjects
practical nurse; military nurse; public health nurse; private care nurse; mother; hospital nurse; floor nurse
Original Date
7-16-1991
Time Period
Twentieth century
Geographic Coverage
Montana
Language
eng
Original Collection
Nurses in Montana Oral History Project, OH 259, Archives and Special Collections, Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula
Digital Publisher
University of Montana-Missoula. Mansfield Library
Rights
Copyright to this collection is held by the interview participants and by the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, University of Montana-Missoula. Permission may be required for use. For further information please contact Archives and Special Collections: (406) 243-2053 / library.archives@umontana.edu
Oral History Number
OH 259-015, 259-016
Media Type
Sound; Text
Original Format
2 sound cassettes (01:00:00 min.): analog
Digital Format
audio/mp3; application/pdf
Run Time
01:40:09 minutes
Local Filename
OH_259_015_016.mp3; OH_259_015_016.pdf
Citation
Reed, Ethel M. and Noonan, Deanna, "Ethel M. Reed and Deanna Noonan Interview, July 16, 1991" (1991). Nurses in Montana Oral History Project. 9.
https://scholarworks.umt.edu/montanawomennurses_oralhistory/9