Melba Doloris Hogenson, 61, died Tuesday 9 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital of a heart attack.
Born Dec. 20, 1904, Mendon, Cache County, a daughter of James Christian and Lydia Aurelia Baker Hogenson.
Attended schools in Logan and Utah State University.
School teacher on Washakie Indian Reservation one year and in Manilla, Duchesne County.
Attended Dr. W.H. Groves Hospital (now LDS) School of Nursing, where she graduated in 1931. Post graduate work at University of Washington, Seattle. Returned to Salt Lake City in 1938 to become head nurse in the maternity division of LDS Hospital.
Instructor of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps, during World War II, she received the Surgeon-General of the United States Merit Service Award; former president of District No. 1 U.S. Nurses Association
MIA and Sunday School teacher, served a stake mission Ensign Stake, genealogy worker, parliamentarian and historian of Ensign Camp--Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Daughters of the American Revolution, member Society of Mayflower Descendants, where she read the Utah report at the Mayflower Congress in Plymouth, Mass. represented Utah at Congress in September 1960.
Survivors: sister, brother, Mrs. Mrs. Van E. (Helen) Romney, Kimberly, Idaho; James C., Santa Barbara, Calif; two aunts, Emma B. Sorensen, Salt Lake City; Stena H. Nelson, Logan; nieces and nephews; grandnieces and nephews.
Born Dec. 20, 1904, Mendon, Cache County, a daughter of James Christian and Lydia Aurelia Baker Hogenson.
Attended schools in Logan and Utah State University.
School teacher on Washakie Indian Reservation one year and in Manilla, Duchesne County.
Attended Dr. W.H. Groves Hospital (now LDS) School of Nursing, where she graduated in 1931. Post graduate work at University of Washington, Seattle. Returned to Salt Lake City in 1938 to become head nurse in the maternity division of LDS Hospital.
Instructor of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps, during World War II, she received the Surgeon-General of the United States Merit Service Award; former president of District No. 1 U.S. Nurses Association
MIA and Sunday School teacher, served a stake mission Ensign Stake, genealogy worker, parliamentarian and historian of Ensign Camp--Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Daughters of the American Revolution, member Society of Mayflower Descendants, where she read the Utah report at the Mayflower Congress in Plymouth, Mass. represented Utah at Congress in September 1960.
Survivors: sister, brother, Mrs. Mrs. Van E. (Helen) Romney, Kimberly, Idaho; James C., Santa Barbara, Calif; two aunts, Emma B. Sorensen, Salt Lake City; Stena H. Nelson, Logan; nieces and nephews; grandnieces and nephews.
Melba Doloris Hogenson, 61, died Tuesday 9 p.m. in a Salt Lake hospital of a heart attack.
Born Dec. 20, 1904, Mendon, Cache County, a daughter of James Christian and Lydia Aurelia Baker Hogenson.
Attended schools in Logan and Utah State University.
School teacher on Washakie Indian Reservation one year and in Manilla, Duchesne County.
Attended Dr. W.H. Groves Hospital (now LDS) School of Nursing, where she graduated in 1931. Post graduate work at University of Washington, Seattle. Returned to Salt Lake City in 1938 to become head nurse in the maternity division of LDS Hospital.
Instructor of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps, during World War II, she received the Surgeon-General of the United States Merit Service Award; former president of District No. 1 U.S. Nurses Association
MIA and Sunday School teacher, served a stake mission Ensign Stake, genealogy worker, parliamentarian and historian of Ensign Camp--Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Daughters of the American Revolution, member Society of Mayflower Descendants, where she read the Utah report at the Mayflower Congress in Plymouth, Mass. represented Utah at Congress in September 1960.
Survivors: sister, brother, Mrs. Mrs. Van E. (Helen) Romney, Kimberly, Idaho; James C., Santa Barbara, Calif; two aunts, Emma B. Sorensen, Salt Lake City; Stena H. Nelson, Logan; nieces and nephews; grandnieces and nephews.
Born Dec. 20, 1904, Mendon, Cache County, a daughter of James Christian and Lydia Aurelia Baker Hogenson.
Attended schools in Logan and Utah State University.
School teacher on Washakie Indian Reservation one year and in Manilla, Duchesne County.
Attended Dr. W.H. Groves Hospital (now LDS) School of Nursing, where she graduated in 1931. Post graduate work at University of Washington, Seattle. Returned to Salt Lake City in 1938 to become head nurse in the maternity division of LDS Hospital.
Instructor of the U.S. Cadet Nursing Corps, during World War II, she received the Surgeon-General of the United States Merit Service Award; former president of District No. 1 U.S. Nurses Association
MIA and Sunday School teacher, served a stake mission Ensign Stake, genealogy worker, parliamentarian and historian of Ensign Camp--Daughters of Utah Pioneers, Daughters of the American Revolution, member Society of Mayflower Descendants, where she read the Utah report at the Mayflower Congress in Plymouth, Mass. represented Utah at Congress in September 1960.
Survivors: sister, brother, Mrs. Mrs. Van E. (Helen) Romney, Kimberly, Idaho; James C., Santa Barbara, Calif; two aunts, Emma B. Sorensen, Salt Lake City; Stena H. Nelson, Logan; nieces and nephews; grandnieces and nephews.
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