Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Wright, Bernice O. May 27, 1960
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Belding Banner-News  Thursday  June 16, 1960

        Bernice O. Wright Ex-Resident Dies In California

Miss Bernice O.Wright, 62, a former resident of this city, passed away May 27 in 
the Veterans Administration hospital in Long Beach,Calif.. She had surgery in 
January and had been ill since then. Before her death she donated her eyes to 
the Long Beach eye bank.

Bernice came to this city with her mother and three sisters and a brother in 
July, 1910 and they reside with an older sister, Eunice Wright Skanes. She 
attended school here until sickness caused her to leave school for a time and 
then she went to Johnson Bible School in Knoxville, Tenn. and completed the 
seventh grade through the 11th and then came back here to complete her high 
school and graduate.

She took her nurses training at Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids and 
graduated as a RN in 1927 and served several years there before becoming an Army 
nurse.She retuned to the annual Butterworth alumni meetings nearly every year 
She took post graduate work in Waverly, Mass, and Baylor university in Texas.

Bernice served three years as 2nd Lt. in the second World War and was stationed 
in Africa, Sicily and Italy. After the ward she worked in a Veterans hospital in 
Dearborn and Ft. Barrett, N.M.

After another serious illness she lived with her brother.Dr.Guy Wright and 
Mrs.wright in Eugene, Ore. for a time. The last three years she was employed at 
the National Benevolent Association for the Aged in San Gabriel, Calif.

Military funeral was held in Long Beach,Calif., with burial in the Veteran's 
Administration Cemetery at W.Los Angeles with full military honors.

Survivors include one brother Dr.Guy T.Wright, a professor at Christian church 
College in Eugene, Ore. and three sisters, Mrs.Charles (Eunice) Skanes, Phoenix, 
Ariz., Mrs.Leo (Winifred)Francisco, Lansing, and Miss Irene Wright, Washington, 
D.C. 

Additional Comments:
Veteran's Administration Cem.,
West Los Angeles, Calif.
2nd Lt.World War II Nurse

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