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Margaret Marie Bjork

 

 

 

 

3 to Colorado As Army Nurses

Three nurses, graduates of Iowa Lutheran hospital, are to report to Camp Carson, Colo., preparatory to become nurses, it was announced Tuesday.

The nurses are Iola Eyerly, Winterset, Ia; Margaret Bjork and Lorraine Westholm, Albert City, Ia.

The three young women were members of the Red Cross student reserves.

Source: DesMoines Tribune, November 14, 1944

Margaret Marie Bjork Swenson was born Feb. 18, 1922 to Oscar Emil and Emma Marie Anderson Bjork.

Margaret served in World War II with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.

Source: ancestry.com