Remembered

On This Day, 4 October 1918

Rosa Mary Rapp died of illness on this day in 1918

Rosa Rapp was born at Jeffersonville, Indiana on December 6th 1894, the daughter of German born Fridolin (Fred) and Mary Theresa.

Rosa graduated from Louisville City Hospital, Kentucky.

Nurses At Camp Lewis (From Camp Lewis In The WW1 Era) — Nurses at Camp Lewis (from Camp Lewis in the WW1 Era)

She volunteered for active service with forces at Louisville on April 2nd 1918 and was initially sent to Camp Lewis, Washington where she was assigned to duty as a Base Hospital nurse.

On September 8th 1918, she embarked at New York for service in France but contracted pneumonia soon after arrival.

Rosa died in the Presbyterian Hospital at Étretat, Normandy on 4 October 1918.

She was buried in Étretat Cemetery and her body later repatriated to the US.

Rosa Mary Rappis Commemorated Here — Rosa Mary Rapp's headstone

Nurse Mary Rosa Rapp, Red Cross Unit 59, Base Hospital

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