Individual Details

Mary Nell Kirkpatrick

(17 Jul 1925 - 20 Apr 1987)

Mary Nell Kirkpatrick was born 17 July 1925 in Amory, Mississippi and died 20 April 1987 in Amory. She attended the Univerity of Tennessee School of Nursing and graduated with honors. She attended school on a scholarship which was funded through the Air Force Cadet Nurse Corps*. After graduation she was stationed at Brookley Air Force Base Hospital in Mobile, Alabama. In 1959 Mary Nell moved back to Amory, Mississippi, where in 1969 she was hired as Amory's first school nurse. In 1980, she returned to school at the University of Colorado, and then became Mississippi's first School Nurse Practitioner. She was a founding member of the Mississippi School Nurses Association.

She was married twice, first to Samuel Bond Haskell, Jr., whom she married on 13 October 1954 in Mobile, Mobile County, Alabama. Samuel was the son of Samuel Bond and Ruth Mary (Counihan) Haskell. He was born 23 February 1929 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and died 20 January 1988 in Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida. She married second to Frank Johnson.

There were three (3) children born of the first marriage.

Name: Mary N Kirkpatrick *
Age: 18
Birth Date: 17 Jul 1925
Issue Date:27 Jul 1944
Educational Institution: University of Tennessee
School Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Source Citation: National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; Cadet Nurse Corps Files, compiled 1943 - 1948, documenting the period 1942 - 1948; Box #: 304

Events

Birth17 Jul 1925Amory, Monroe Co., Mississippi
Marriage13 Oct 1954Mobile, Mobile Co., Alabama - Samuel Bond Haskell Jr.
Death20 Apr 1987Amory, Monroe Co., Mississippi
BurialMasonic Cemetery, Amory, Monroe Co., Mississippi

Families

SpouseFrank Johnson ( - )
SpouseSamuel Bond Haskell Jr. (1929 - 1988)
ChildSamuel Bond Haskell III (1955 - )
ChildJames Counihan Haskell (1956 - )
ChildWilliam Kirkpatrick Haskell (1958 - )
FatherGiles Hezekiah Kirkpatrick (1891 - 1958)
MotherMary Katherine Humphries (1893 - 1963)
SiblingJames Lewis Kirkpatrick (1914 - 2000)
SiblingEugene Kirkpatrick (1918 - 1989)
SiblingBetty Mae Kirkpatrick (1929 - 2013)

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