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The end of an era for the nursing Class of '42
To the editor:
The death of Edythe Stephens in November closed out the Class of 1942 for the Lewistown Hospital School of Nursing. The last four members of the class made it to the ages of 98 through 101.
Marcella Albright Harner, of State College, died in 2019 at the age of 98. Margie Folk Goss, of Burnham, passed away in 2020 at 99. Evelyn Houser Wilde, of Belleville, was 100 and died in 2021. Edythe Sheaffer Stephens, of Burnham, was 101.
For years as long as they could gather, the four women would get together and eat, talk and keep in touch with each other at least twice a year.
They all loved to talk about their nursing careers and their days at the Lewistown School of Nursing. It closed out an era of practicing nursing on a local level.
Ray A. Wilde
Belleville