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Dec. 11, 1949-Jan. 23, 2024 MINNEOTA Mass of Christian Burial for Wayne Thomas Skorczewski, 74, of Minneota will take place Friday, January 26, 2024, at St. ....
IVANHOE Brothers Ron and Steve Lambrecht were born 18 years apart, but they followed very similar career paths in the United States military. Their militar ....
Prairie Lives Last week we met Ivanhoe’s Norma Jean (Pederson) Johnson, who graduated from Ivanhoe High School in 1940; continued her education at the St. Barnabus School of Nursing in Minneapolis; and graduated as an RN in 1944. Like many of her fellow nursing graduates, she volunteered for military service, in her case with the Army Nurse Corps. Norma Jean completed her Basic Training at Camp Carson, Colorado before deploying to Manila, the capital of the Philippines, with the newly-formed 316th General Hospital. Manila was in ruins from weeks of heavy fighting, with much of the city center and entire neighborhoods destroyed. The nurses were housed in a heavily-damaged, former convent. The American forces there did not need another General Hospital and Norma Jean explained what happened to her unit. ....
Prairie Lives This year the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II. We are remembering contributions of persons from our region, most of whom are no longer with us. During WWII the women serving in the Navy WAVES, the Coast Guard SPARS, the Marine Corps Women Reserves, and the women WASP pilots were all restricted from overseas service. But the 59,000 WWII-era Army nurses had no such restrictions and 32,500 served overseas. Let’s meet an Army nurse who served overseas. Ivanhoe’s Norma Jean Johnson was born in Ivanhoe in 1922 and attended public school, graduating with the Ivanhoe High School class of 1940. ....