Jackson County

 
Lt. Vera M. Peters

 

 

 

Nurses who returned on the Queen Mary were Lt. Ruth Roman, Muscatine; Second Lt. Vera M. Peters, Spragueville; Lt. Lorraine Harberts, Grundy Center, and Lt. Rita M Niles, Remsen, all of Iowa.

Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - June 22, 1945 (photo included)

ARMY NURSE DISCHARGED

Spragueville, Ia. -- Lieut. Vera M. Peters, in the army nurse crop two years, received her discharge at Ft. Sheridan, Ill., and has returned home. She enlisted Feb. 15, 1944 and the following July left Camp Grant for overseas. She spent nearly a year in England returning June 25, 1945 and has since been at Percy Jones general hospital, Battle Creek, Mich.

Source: The Quad City Times, January 29, 1946