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First love
She was fifteen when Bob Durret ask Alice to marry him. She sounded proud of it. Even though he liked her more than she liked him. -
interview with Alice Duffield
The first year Alice got 5 dollars a month, After there first year , if they were accepted they got the blue uniform with a bib on there apron. They had good food, but very crowed with their roommated. -
The camp pike
At Camp PIke the boys trained and they didnt do anything except work. She was transferred and assigned to a war she said "all young black soldiers., everyine of them had pneumonia. -
Going into Red Cross
Alice got into the red cross by when she came bac from home her things were already there, amd Miss Delano was talking tot them about the war saying "Our Boys Aren't getting the proper treatment" -
Alices first appointment
Alice was only early age when she had her first appiontment, it was in Dawson Springs, Kentucky. It was after the war. It was called "Sparks Hospitial". She got her training there at Sparks. -
Veterans Administration Hospitial
It was Veterans Hospitial #79 in Dawson Spring, Kentucky.
The picture was taken on Memorial Day.
There were all females in this picture -
Alice Duffield in nurse uniform
Alice looks happy in this picture.
Looks like it around the spring time.
She was in a long sweater.
The sweater was kind of blowing in the wind. -
oldest woman veteran
In october, 1998, Alice was presented with a certificate with "the longest living veteran." She was one of the first nurse trained at Sparks Hospitial. -
oldest woman veteran in the state
Died in Tennesse, was 105 years olds on April 14,2002.
For 15 years at the veterans hospitial was called "the soldier home". This information was from a newspaper article.
