World War I VETERAN
U.S. Army - nurse
Never married
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MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT
Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA
Publish date: Aug. 14, 1947
Graveside services at Union Cemetery under the auspices of El Dorado Post No. 119, American Legion, were held Monday afternoon for Miss Augusta Howard vernon, an Army nurse of World War One.
Miss Vernon passed away Friday of last week, seven days after she had suffered a cerebral hemorhage.
A native of the Gold Hill district of this county, born November 23, 1873, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick Vernon. Her twin sister, Adelaide, died in July of 1926.
Miss Vernon chose nursing as a profession and was graduated at Waldeck Hospital in San Francisco. She specialized in surgery work and was head nurse in the surgery at Mt. Zion hospital for many years and also held the same position in later years in what is now the Franklin hospital, at San Francisco.
During World War One she saw service in France with a hospital unit headed by Dr. Charles Levison, of Mt. Zion Hospital and was in charge of the surgery at Base Hospital 47. After her return from France with the unit, she had resumed her civilian duties as a nurse and in more recent years had lived with an invalid sister in Sacramento.
She leaves two sisters, Ruth and Nancy, and two brothers, Perry and Isaac.
U.S. Army - nurse
Never married
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MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT
Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA
Publish date: Aug. 14, 1947
Graveside services at Union Cemetery under the auspices of El Dorado Post No. 119, American Legion, were held Monday afternoon for Miss Augusta Howard vernon, an Army nurse of World War One.
Miss Vernon passed away Friday of last week, seven days after she had suffered a cerebral hemorhage.
A native of the Gold Hill district of this county, born November 23, 1873, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick Vernon. Her twin sister, Adelaide, died in July of 1926.
Miss Vernon chose nursing as a profession and was graduated at Waldeck Hospital in San Francisco. She specialized in surgery work and was head nurse in the surgery at Mt. Zion hospital for many years and also held the same position in later years in what is now the Franklin hospital, at San Francisco.
During World War One she saw service in France with a hospital unit headed by Dr. Charles Levison, of Mt. Zion Hospital and was in charge of the surgery at Base Hospital 47. After her return from France with the unit, she had resumed her civilian duties as a nurse and in more recent years had lived with an invalid sister in Sacramento.
She leaves two sisters, Ruth and Nancy, and two brothers, Perry and Isaac.
World War I VETERAN
U.S. Army - nurse
Never married
=============
MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT
Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA
Publish date: Aug. 14, 1947
Graveside services at Union Cemetery under the auspices of El Dorado Post No. 119, American Legion, were held Monday afternoon for Miss Augusta Howard vernon, an Army nurse of World War One.
Miss Vernon passed away Friday of last week, seven days after she had suffered a cerebral hemorhage.
A native of the Gold Hill district of this county, born November 23, 1873, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick Vernon. Her twin sister, Adelaide, died in July of 1926.
Miss Vernon chose nursing as a profession and was graduated at Waldeck Hospital in San Francisco. She specialized in surgery work and was head nurse in the surgery at Mt. Zion hospital for many years and also held the same position in later years in what is now the Franklin hospital, at San Francisco.
During World War One she saw service in France with a hospital unit headed by Dr. Charles Levison, of Mt. Zion Hospital and was in charge of the surgery at Base Hospital 47. After her return from France with the unit, she had resumed her civilian duties as a nurse and in more recent years had lived with an invalid sister in Sacramento.
She leaves two sisters, Ruth and Nancy, and two brothers, Perry and Isaac.
U.S. Army - nurse
Never married
=============
MOUNTAIN DEMOCRAT
Placerville, El Dorado Co., CA
Publish date: Aug. 14, 1947
Graveside services at Union Cemetery under the auspices of El Dorado Post No. 119, American Legion, were held Monday afternoon for Miss Augusta Howard vernon, an Army nurse of World War One.
Miss Vernon passed away Friday of last week, seven days after she had suffered a cerebral hemorhage.
A native of the Gold Hill district of this county, born November 23, 1873, she was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick Vernon. Her twin sister, Adelaide, died in July of 1926.
Miss Vernon chose nursing as a profession and was graduated at Waldeck Hospital in San Francisco. She specialized in surgery work and was head nurse in the surgery at Mt. Zion hospital for many years and also held the same position in later years in what is now the Franklin hospital, at San Francisco.
During World War One she saw service in France with a hospital unit headed by Dr. Charles Levison, of Mt. Zion Hospital and was in charge of the surgery at Base Hospital 47. After her return from France with the unit, she had resumed her civilian duties as a nurse and in more recent years had lived with an invalid sister in Sacramento.
She leaves two sisters, Ruth and Nancy, and two brothers, Perry and Isaac.
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