Ruth King Garrett Collection
Content Description
The collection includes an oral history transcript, 10 April 2007; various scans of photographs, along with a letter, 1945.
Dates
- circa 1945, 2007
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Ruth King Garrett (1923-2015) of Greensboro, North Carolina, served in the Army Nurse Corps from 1945 to 1946, followed by a long civilian career in nursing. Ruth King Garrett was born on 31 May, 1923, in Greensboro, North Carolina. After graduating from Rankin High School, she briefly attended the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Inspired by a health course at the university, she began nurses' training at Saint Leo's Hospital in the city and graduated from the program in 1944. She then worked at a polio hospital in Hickory, North Carolina. Garrett joined the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) on January 31, 1945 and was sent to Fort Rucker, Alabama, for basic training. She was then sent to Battey General Hospital in Rome, Georgia, where she stayed for five months.
In summer of 1945 she was assigned to overseas duty and traveled to California to meet the United StatesS Comfort, which arrived in Manila, Philippines in August 1945. While in Manila, Garrett treated recently released United States prisoners of war and other wounded soldiers in temporary hospital units. She returned to the United States on February 1, 1946 and was discharged from the ANC on March 15, 1946.
Garrett returned to Greensboro and worked at LeBauers Healthcare for a few months before moving to Fayetteville, North Carolina, to work at the Veterans Affairs [VA] Medical Center. A year later she returned to Greensboro and married Clifford Garrett, an army veteran, on 27 July 1947. They had three children together, one of whom became a nurse. Garrett retired from nursing in the mid-1980s. Garrett died on 5 January, 2015.
Extent
0.21 Linear Feet (1 folder, scans of photographs )
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
- License: This record is made available under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Creative Commons license.
Condition Description
The condition is good.
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Processing Information
Processed by Matthew McCarthy.
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Interviews
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Military life
- United States. Army Nurse Corps -- Women
- Women and the military
- Women veterans
- World War, 1939-1945
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Armed Forces -- United States -- Correspondence
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Medical care
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- United States -- Photographs
- Title
- Ruth King Garrett Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Matthew McCarthy
- Date
- 2022 August
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- eng
Repository Details
Part of the Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives Repository