Irish pilot Lady Mary Heath was at the height of her fame and one of the best-known women in the world in the 1920s when, just before the National Air Races in Cleveland in 1929, she crashed her light plane into a factory roof and was seriously injured.
Lady Heath was taken to Lakeside Hospital, where she remained in a coma with life-threatening injuries for several weeks, tended to by a young nurse named Ruth M. Stewart.
Lady Heath survived. When she finished her convalescence at the hospital she gave Ms. Stewart a signed photograph of herself and the hand-drawn map of the airport that had been in her pocket when she crashed.