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THE APACHE SENTIEL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1945

Nurses Leave The Fort for New Station

Today 25 nurses from the Station Hospital leave the Fort for duty at Camp Beale, California. This is the largest shipment of "women in white" to leave this station. 

Those leaving are Capt. Della H. Raney, Suffolk, Virgina; 1st Lt. Mary L. Williams, Ft. Worth Texas;
2nd Lts. Rosetta Austin, Savannah, Ga.; Ada H. Bailey, New York City, N. Y.; Bernice E. Britton, Clover, Va.

2nd Lts. Gladys S. Brown, Camden, N. J.; Mary P. Burton, Kilmarnock, Va.; Vinie L. Curry, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Evelyn Decker, Washingtonville, N. Y.; Carolyn E. Dillon, New York City, N. Y.; Thelma A. Gallman, Winston-Salem, N. C.; Louise K. Jenkins, Yark, Pa.

2nd Lts. Ada E. Mack, Greenville, S. C.; Lourene F. Martin, Princess Anne, Md.; Virginia Mobley, Haverhill, Mass.; Mary J. Mondore, Philadelphia, Pa.; Thelma N. Reynolds, Atlantic City, N.J.; Mary M. Stanley, New Bern, N.C.

2nd Lts. Lydia C. Wiles, New York City, N. Y.; Clara E. Bridges, Atlanta, Ga.; Patti D. Evans, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Velma N. Brown, St. Louis, Mo.; Paradene V. Alford, Jacksonville, Fla.; Hazel P. Reid, San Diego, Calif.

Capt. Raney, one of the three Negro nurses holding this rank, has the distinction of being the first Negro nurse to report for duty in World War II. When called into the service, she was serving as Operating Room Supervisor in the Lincoln Hospital, Durham, N.C., from which she graduated.

Capt. Raney was commissioned a 2nd Lt. April 25, 1941, and saw her first active duty in Ft. Bragg, N. C., March 9, 1942, she was promoted to first Lt. and transferred to Tuskegee Army Air Field as Principal Chief Nurse. Advancing to her present rank in June, 1944, she came to the Fort on July 7,1944, where she has served as Principal Chief Nurse until leaving. 

1st Lt. Margaret Ann Key of Philadelphia, Pa., will assume the position of Principal Chief Nurse. Lt. Key is a gradate of Provident Hospital, Baltimore, Md., and was called to active duty July 17,1941. Prior to coming here, she was stationed in Camp Livingston, La., where she was promoted to the present rank. Since her arrival, July 1, 1942, she has served as assistant to the Principal Chief Nurse.

CALIFORINA, FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946

Only Race Woman With Major Rank Visits Sacramento

Major Della H. Raney, the only race woman holding the rank of major in the army nurses corps, is visiting in Sacramento while on terminal leave from her assignment as chief nurse at Camp Beale.

Major Raney, who entered the service five years ago at Fort Bragg, N. C., as second lieutenant, is looking forward to her new life as a civilian, but with some reservations.

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Will be Housekeeper

"After five years it's a pleasure to be out, but I am wondering how I'll become adjusted to civilian life. As I married last December, I will be taking up housekeeping, but I don't think

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