Christianson, Mabel C

Grand Forks County (North Dakota) in the World War (World War I), The Page Printerie Inc, Grand Forks, North Dakota, approx 1920

Mabel C Christianson

Nurse, Army Nurse Corps, of Carpio, ND., received her early training at the Deaconess Hospital of Grand Forks, of which hospital she was a graduate nurse. She entered the nursing service of the United States Army soon after our entry into the war and was sssigned to an army hospital at Camp Lewis, Washington. She faithfully performed her duties at this hospital and especially during the terrible influenza epidemic that raged through the country during the summer and fall of 1918. Her close association with the dread disease however, was fatal for she became ill with a complication of influenza and pneumonia and died soon thereafter at Camp Lewis, Washington