Hetzler Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection includes artifacts that were removed from a large frame including her nursing uniform jacket with service medals and patches, cap, dog tags, and five small images. Additionally photocopies of her obituary and an article titled "Lt. Iris Hetzler Confirms Stories of Nazi Cruelty" were included.
An accrual received several months later included a postcard of the Boys' Cottages at the Annie Wittenmyer Home postmarked 1909 and a catalog of courses from St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in Davenport, Iowa ca 1938-1941 were received.
Dates
- Creation: 1938-1945
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
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Biographical / Historical
Iris Mabel McCullough was born July 1, 1920 in Montpelier, Iowa, a daughter of John M. and Mabel Catherine (Sackville) McCullough. Iris graduated from Muscatine High School in the class of 1938 then chose to attend St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing from which she graduated in September 1941. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Iris chose to join the United States Army Nurse Corps, serving as a First Lieutenant. After a time spent at Fort Riley in Kansas, Iris went to Europe to serve in England and France.
She married Kenneth Hetzler March 20, 1943 and raised four children. Mrs. Hetzler passed away August 29, 2014 in Muscatine, Iowa.
Iris Hetzler participated in an Oral History project with the Davenport Public Library in 2001 in which she shared details of her life and service in the Army Nurse Corps. Collateral materials in addition to the audio taped conversation and typed transcription of the interview include:
2 color snapshots (June 2001);
photocopies bw pictures Mrs. Hetzler in nursing uniform;
photocopy bw picture Hopital de la Pitie in Paris;
photocopies bw pictures VE Day in Paris;
copy of segments of “The Two Hundred and Seventeenth General Hospital Post-War Book”
Published for members of this Organization by the
Special Service Section Paris-France (10 pages).
Extent
1 Linear Feet (in )
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Range 33 Section 09
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center Repository
321 Main Street
Davenport IA 52801-1490 United States
specialcollections@davenportlibrary.com