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Photo # NH 97261: Navy Nurse Madeline Clara Lassuy at her desk at the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, 1939

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Nurse Madeline Clara Lassuy, USN (1914-2006).
Later Mrs. Edwin C. Finney.

Madeline Clara Lassuy was born in Racine, Wisconsin, on 28 January 1914. She received nurses' training at Saint Anthony's Hospital in Rock Island, Illinois, becoming a Registered Nurse in 1934. After 2 1/2 years of civilian nursing, she became a Navy Nurse in February 1937 and was first stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station Hospital, Great Lakes, Illinois. In 1939, she was transferred to San Diego Naval Hospital. Nurse Lassuy resigned from the Navy in the Summer of 1940 to marry Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Edwin Carlton Finney, USN. Madeline Clara Lassuy Finney died in Pagosa Springs, Colorado on 22 April 2006. She is buried at Saint Mary's Cemetary, East Moline, Illinois.

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Photo #: NH 97261

Navy Nurse Madeline Clara Lassuy


At her desk in Sick Officers Quarters (S.O.Q.) at the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, 1939.

Collection of Madeline L. Finney. Courtesy of E.C. Finney, Jr., 2000.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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Photo #: NH 97262

Navy Nurse Madeline Clara Lassuy


At her desk in the Sick Officers Quarters (S.O.Q.) at the U.S. Naval Hospital, San Diego, California, 1940.

Collection of Madeline L. Finney. Courtesy of E.C. Finney, Jr., 2000.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 81KB; 510 x 765 pixels

 


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Image posted 11 March 2000
Text revised 8 June 2006