Lucile Petry Leon - age: 97

Lucile Petry Leon

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ABOUT

Founder and leader of the United States Cadet Nurse Corps who recruited more than 100,000 women to learn nursing for the war effort in WWII.She created her organization at a time when most of the doctors and nurses were serving overseas, and overcrowded hospitals in the U.S. were turning away patients.Anna Etherudidge was another heroic nurse; she helped heal soldiers during the Civil War.

BEFORE FAME

She wanted to see the chemistry at work in the human body, not in test tubes.

PERSONAL LIFE

She was born in Lewisburg, Ohio. Her father was a high school principal.

The meaning of the name Leon: Lion

FUN FACTS

Doctor Lucile Petry Leon were born on Thursday, birthstone is Garnet, the seaon was Winter in the Chinese year of Tiger, it is 21 days until Lucile Petry Leon next birthday.

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