Died as Virginia Smith- neice visited her in the 1990s
Name: Virginia Ruth Smith
Service Info.: SSGT US ARMY
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1912
Death Date: 13 Nov 2001
Relation: Wife Of Smith, Lem Roland
Interment Date: 10 Oct 2002
Cemetery: Riverside National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 22495 Van Buren Boulevard Riverside, CA 92518
Buried At: Section 1 Site 104
Born in Columbiana Ohio, daughter of Jesse Soloman Rupert, a graduate of Hanna Mullins School of Practical Nursing. More to come on this.
Graduate 1932 Hannah Mullins School of Practial Nursing Married Lem Smith February 07, 1932 and Arden Cook
No children.
Photo provided by Mary Paden Rupert 2001.
Residence
1935
Age: 22
Canfield, Mahoning, Ohio
Residence
1940
1 Apr
Age: 27
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Age: 27; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head
Additional Nov 5, 2018 from RDBaith
Here are a few items from the Salem paper about Virginia. There are quite a few mentions of her visiting her parents in Middleton, usually alone but sometimes with a friend. She also seemed very active in the area with nursing type affairs
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Friday January 27,1939 Page 3
Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swope and daughter, Verna Marie of North Lima and Miss Virginia Rupert were Sunday afternoon guests of Miss Zelta Rohrer.
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Miss Virginia Rupert of Salem City hospital spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert.
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The Salem News, Salem Ohio Saturday, August 24, 1940
Miss Virginia Rupert left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, where she accepted a position in a Detroit hospital. Miss Rupert was supervisor in the tuberculin department at Salem city hospital.
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This one is interesting to me in that Mrs. Louis Weirick was Leila Mae Faloon. Her husband was the son of George Edward Weirick and Rhea Fern Arthur. Rhea was my paternal grandmother's 1st cousin 1x removed.
On the 1940 census Virginia is a nursing instructor and Leila is shown as a registered nurse. The are living in the Hanna Mullins Nurse's Home with 37 other women.
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Thursday, November 20, 1940
Mrs. Weirick President Of Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae
Salem City Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association, meeting last night in the Nurses’ home on East State St., elected new officers for the year, naming Mrs. Louis Weirick president to succeed Miss Virginia Rupert.
(Edited out names of other members)
The new officers will begin these duties at the January meeting.
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The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Saturday, October 26, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Arden Cook of Arizona, here for a visit, were honored by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert, Saturday at a turkey dinner. Guests included two former classmates, Mrs. Zelta Trotter and Mrs. Lois Swope and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert, Miss Ada Bierman and George Reifendifer of Salem. Mrs. Cook will be remembered as Miss Virginia Rupert. The Cooks left for Arizona Wednesday morning.∼Wife of Lem Roland Smith, SSGT US ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Virginia and Lem are interred together.
Name: Virginia Ruth Smith
Service Info.: SSGT US ARMY
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1912
Death Date: 13 Nov 2001
Relation: Wife Of Smith, Lem Roland
Interment Date: 10 Oct 2002
Cemetery: Riverside National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 22495 Van Buren Boulevard Riverside, CA 92518
Buried At: Section 1 Site 104
Born in Columbiana Ohio, daughter of Jesse Soloman Rupert, a graduate of Hanna Mullins School of Practical Nursing. More to come on this.
Graduate 1932 Hannah Mullins School of Practial Nursing Married Lem Smith February 07, 1932 and Arden Cook
No children.
Photo provided by Mary Paden Rupert 2001.
Residence
1935
Age: 22
Canfield, Mahoning, Ohio
Residence
1940
1 Apr
Age: 27
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Age: 27; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head
Additional Nov 5, 2018 from RDBaith
Here are a few items from the Salem paper about Virginia. There are quite a few mentions of her visiting her parents in Middleton, usually alone but sometimes with a friend. She also seemed very active in the area with nursing type affairs
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Friday January 27,1939 Page 3
Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swope and daughter, Verna Marie of North Lima and Miss Virginia Rupert were Sunday afternoon guests of Miss Zelta Rohrer.
-
Miss Virginia Rupert of Salem City hospital spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert.
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The Salem News, Salem Ohio Saturday, August 24, 1940
Miss Virginia Rupert left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, where she accepted a position in a Detroit hospital. Miss Rupert was supervisor in the tuberculin department at Salem city hospital.
----
This one is interesting to me in that Mrs. Louis Weirick was Leila Mae Faloon. Her husband was the son of George Edward Weirick and Rhea Fern Arthur. Rhea was my paternal grandmother's 1st cousin 1x removed.
On the 1940 census Virginia is a nursing instructor and Leila is shown as a registered nurse. The are living in the Hanna Mullins Nurse's Home with 37 other women.
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Thursday, November 20, 1940
Mrs. Weirick President Of Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae
Salem City Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association, meeting last night in the Nurses’ home on East State St., elected new officers for the year, naming Mrs. Louis Weirick president to succeed Miss Virginia Rupert.
(Edited out names of other members)
The new officers will begin these duties at the January meeting.
----
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Saturday, October 26, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Arden Cook of Arizona, here for a visit, were honored by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert, Saturday at a turkey dinner. Guests included two former classmates, Mrs. Zelta Trotter and Mrs. Lois Swope and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert, Miss Ada Bierman and George Reifendifer of Salem. Mrs. Cook will be remembered as Miss Virginia Rupert. The Cooks left for Arizona Wednesday morning.∼Wife of Lem Roland Smith, SSGT US ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Virginia and Lem are interred together.
Died as Virginia Smith- neice visited her in the 1990s
Name: Virginia Ruth Smith
Service Info.: SSGT US ARMY
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1912
Death Date: 13 Nov 2001
Relation: Wife Of Smith, Lem Roland
Interment Date: 10 Oct 2002
Cemetery: Riverside National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 22495 Van Buren Boulevard Riverside, CA 92518
Buried At: Section 1 Site 104
Born in Columbiana Ohio, daughter of Jesse Soloman Rupert, a graduate of Hanna Mullins School of Practical Nursing. More to come on this.
Graduate 1932 Hannah Mullins School of Practial Nursing Married Lem Smith February 07, 1932 and Arden Cook
No children.
Photo provided by Mary Paden Rupert 2001.
Residence
1935
Age: 22
Canfield, Mahoning, Ohio
Residence
1940
1 Apr
Age: 27
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Age: 27; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head
Additional Nov 5, 2018 from RDBaith
Here are a few items from the Salem paper about Virginia. There are quite a few mentions of her visiting her parents in Middleton, usually alone but sometimes with a friend. She also seemed very active in the area with nursing type affairs
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Friday January 27,1939 Page 3
Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swope and daughter, Verna Marie of North Lima and Miss Virginia Rupert were Sunday afternoon guests of Miss Zelta Rohrer.
-
Miss Virginia Rupert of Salem City hospital spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert.
----
The Salem News, Salem Ohio Saturday, August 24, 1940
Miss Virginia Rupert left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, where she accepted a position in a Detroit hospital. Miss Rupert was supervisor in the tuberculin department at Salem city hospital.
----
This one is interesting to me in that Mrs. Louis Weirick was Leila Mae Faloon. Her husband was the son of George Edward Weirick and Rhea Fern Arthur. Rhea was my paternal grandmother's 1st cousin 1x removed.
On the 1940 census Virginia is a nursing instructor and Leila is shown as a registered nurse. The are living in the Hanna Mullins Nurse's Home with 37 other women.
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Thursday, November 20, 1940
Mrs. Weirick President Of Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae
Salem City Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association, meeting last night in the Nurses’ home on East State St., elected new officers for the year, naming Mrs. Louis Weirick president to succeed Miss Virginia Rupert.
(Edited out names of other members)
The new officers will begin these duties at the January meeting.
----
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Saturday, October 26, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Arden Cook of Arizona, here for a visit, were honored by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert, Saturday at a turkey dinner. Guests included two former classmates, Mrs. Zelta Trotter and Mrs. Lois Swope and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert, Miss Ada Bierman and George Reifendifer of Salem. Mrs. Cook will be remembered as Miss Virginia Rupert. The Cooks left for Arizona Wednesday morning.∼Wife of Lem Roland Smith, SSGT US ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Virginia and Lem are interred together.
Name: Virginia Ruth Smith
Service Info.: SSGT US ARMY
Birth Date: 20 Aug 1912
Death Date: 13 Nov 2001
Relation: Wife Of Smith, Lem Roland
Interment Date: 10 Oct 2002
Cemetery: Riverside National Cemetery
Cemetery Address: 22495 Van Buren Boulevard Riverside, CA 92518
Buried At: Section 1 Site 104
Born in Columbiana Ohio, daughter of Jesse Soloman Rupert, a graduate of Hanna Mullins School of Practical Nursing. More to come on this.
Graduate 1932 Hannah Mullins School of Practial Nursing Married Lem Smith February 07, 1932 and Arden Cook
No children.
Photo provided by Mary Paden Rupert 2001.
Residence
1935
Age: 22
Canfield, Mahoning, Ohio
Residence
1940
1 Apr
Age: 27
Yavapai, Arizona, United States
Age: 27; Marital Status: Single; Relation to Head of House: Head
Additional Nov 5, 2018 from RDBaith
Here are a few items from the Salem paper about Virginia. There are quite a few mentions of her visiting her parents in Middleton, usually alone but sometimes with a friend. She also seemed very active in the area with nursing type affairs
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Friday January 27,1939 Page 3
Middleton
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Swope and daughter, Verna Marie of North Lima and Miss Virginia Rupert were Sunday afternoon guests of Miss Zelta Rohrer.
-
Miss Virginia Rupert of Salem City hospital spent Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert.
----
The Salem News, Salem Ohio Saturday, August 24, 1940
Miss Virginia Rupert left for Detroit, Mich., Tuesday, where she accepted a position in a Detroit hospital. Miss Rupert was supervisor in the tuberculin department at Salem city hospital.
----
This one is interesting to me in that Mrs. Louis Weirick was Leila Mae Faloon. Her husband was the son of George Edward Weirick and Rhea Fern Arthur. Rhea was my paternal grandmother's 1st cousin 1x removed.
On the 1940 census Virginia is a nursing instructor and Leila is shown as a registered nurse. The are living in the Hanna Mullins Nurse's Home with 37 other women.
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Thursday, November 20, 1940
Mrs. Weirick President Of Hospital Nurses’ Alumnae
Salem City Hospital Nurses Alumnae Association, meeting last night in the Nurses’ home on East State St., elected new officers for the year, naming Mrs. Louis Weirick president to succeed Miss Virginia Rupert.
(Edited out names of other members)
The new officers will begin these duties at the January meeting.
----
The Salem News, Salem, Ohio Saturday, October 26, 1946
Mr. and Mrs. Arden Cook of Arizona, here for a visit, were honored by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Rupert, Saturday at a turkey dinner. Guests included two former classmates, Mrs. Zelta Trotter and Mrs. Lois Swope and their families, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rupert, Miss Ada Bierman and George Reifendifer of Salem. Mrs. Cook will be remembered as Miss Virginia Rupert. The Cooks left for Arizona Wednesday morning.∼Wife of Lem Roland Smith, SSGT US ARMY, WORLD WAR II.
Virginia and Lem are interred together.
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