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25 March 1918 : Nurse Patricia Irene Byron, US Army Nurse Corps

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  Ms Byron graduated from Hope Hospital, Ft Wayne in 1906. Patricia was appointed Superintendent of the Allen County Tuberculosis Hospital soon afterwards. In the summer of 1917, she volunteered to be an Army nurse and was sent to Camp McArthur in Texas where she died, of tuberculosis, on 25 March 1918.   She is buried in Fullerton, Califor…