Published:
7:00 PM May 12, 2021
Celebrating International Nurses Day at Spring Lodge in Woolverstone, from left, Kathleen Caley, Margaret McGirr, Daphne Shave and activities coordinator Aimee Davey
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
Three retired nurses at a care home near Ipswich were treated to a special surprise to mark International Nurses Day.
Retired nurses Daphne Shave, 86, Kathleen Caley, 80, and Margaret McGirr, 88, are all now residents at Spring Lodge care home, in Woolverstone, run by Kingsley Healthcare.
Staff presented the trio with flowers and chocolates ahead of a celebratory afternoon tea on the special day, May 12, when nurses around the world are celebrated.
Daphne Shave as a nurse
Published:
7:00 PM May 12, 2021
Celebrating International Nurses Day at Spring Lodge in Woolverstone, from left, Kathleen Caley, Margaret McGirr, Daphne Shave and activities coordinator Aimee Davey
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
Three retired nurses at a care home near Ipswich were treated to a special surprise to mark International Nurses Day.
Retired nurses Daphne Shave, 86, Kathleen Caley, 80, and Margaret McGirr, 88, are all now residents at Spring Lodge care home, in Woolverstone, run by Kingsley Healthcare.
Staff presented the trio with flowers and chocolates ahead of a celebratory afternoon tea on the special day, May 12, when nurses around the world are celebrated.
Daphne Shave as a nurse
Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.
Jantje Huggins on her family s farm in the Netherlands in her youth
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
When war arrived, her older brother and other teenage boys were sent to labour camps in Germany.
“My older sister and I were ordered to make German uniforms. We both refused and were held overnight, she recalled.
VE Day anniversary celebrations at Spring Lodge care home in Woolverstone, near Ipswich
- Credit: Kingsley Healthcare
“We were allowed home in the morning, to mother’s great joy. She was afraid we had also been sent to Germany.”
Mrs Huggins remembers her sadness at seeing Jewish shop owners rounded up and sent to concentration camps.