Donna Louise Hunter

Donna graduated from Galion High School in 1940 and from White Cross Hospital School of Nursing in Columbus, in 1944. At that time, both theaters of World War II were deeply involved and the government was in desperate need for more registered nurses to care for troops, so a federal program, related to the war effort, was established for student nurses and called the Cadet Nurse Corps of which Donna was a member. After graduation, and Ohio State Board, Donna and a number of other White Cross nurses quickly joined the war effort. As a registered nurse, Donna was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corp. in March 1945. She first served at Billings General Hospital at Fort Benjamin Harrison in Indianapolis, Ind. for several months, before being sent overseas and assigned to the 9th Station Hospital in Okinawa. When the war ended, she served in the U.S. Army Hospital in Fukuoma, Japan as a civilian nurse during the United States Occupation of Japan.

Donna was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Mount Vernon.

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