News From Service Women
Second Lieut. Betty Pugh, a graduate of the Methodist Hospital School of nursing here, has completed a one-year term of service at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pugh of Milford. For a year before her enlistment she served on the visiting nurses’ staff here.
Two other Milford young women are in the service of their country. They are Lieut. Betty Pugh, the first nurse from the county to enlist and who has this week been transferred from Fort Leonard Wood to Camp Crowder, Mo., and Lieut. Gladys Trunnell. The latter is stationed at Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Source: Estherville Daily News, August 27, 1942
Lieut. Betty Pugh, a graduate of the Methodist Hospital School of nursing in 1939, now is stationed with the United States army nursing corps in Alaska. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Pugh of Milford, Iowa.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, March 16, 1943 (photo included)
Betty Beatrice Pugh Sarno was born Oct. 5, 1917 to Jesse Elijah and Icle Temperance Hansen Pugh. She died Dec. 9, 2001 and is buried in Fort Snelling National Cemetery, Minneapolis, MN.
She was married to Eguene G. Sarno. Sgt. Sarno served with the U.S. Army in World War II.
Source: ancestry.com
