First Officer of the U. S. Army Nurses Corps to die in Europe - Blanche Sigman - Anzio - 1944
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First Officer of the U. S. Army Nurses Corps to die in Europe - Blanche Sigman - Anzio - 1944
Cambridge Nurse Killed By Nazi Attack On Hospital
Special to The News
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO -First Lieut. Blanche Sigman, 36, native of Byesville (OHIO) and daughter of Joseph Sigman, 1919 Sarchet avenue, city was killed Feb. 7 when Nazi planes bombed an evacuation hospital on the Anzio beachhead, her father has learned.
In charge of an army nurses corps, she died at her post.
Born Nov. 3, 1907 in Byesville, she graduated from high school and went into training in a Bellevue, N. Y. hospital. Before enlisting July 1, 1942, she was county nurse of Summit county working near Akron.
Lieut. Sigman was attached to the 95th evacuation hospital unit that followed the Fifth army in landing on Anzio beachhead.
She is survived by her parents; six brothers, Richard and Ronald near Cambridge; Billy and Franklin of the home; Roger with an army medical corps unit training at Great Bend, Kan., and Robert, a foreman in the Ravenna arsenal; two sisters, Miss Sarah Jane Sigman, of Akron and Mrs. Dorothy Diss, Cambridge, route 4; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Whitis, East Wheeling avenue, city.
A sister, Mrs. Thelma Thompson, Byesville school teacher was instantly killed two years ago near Strasburg when the car she was driving was struck by a train.
The Zanesville News, Zanesville, OHIO
March 4, 1944
Special to The News
CAMBRIDGE, OHIO -First Lieut. Blanche Sigman, 36, native of Byesville (OHIO) and daughter of Joseph Sigman, 1919 Sarchet avenue, city was killed Feb. 7 when Nazi planes bombed an evacuation hospital on the Anzio beachhead, her father has learned.
In charge of an army nurses corps, she died at her post.
Born Nov. 3, 1907 in Byesville, she graduated from high school and went into training in a Bellevue, N. Y. hospital. Before enlisting July 1, 1942, she was county nurse of Summit county working near Akron.
Lieut. Sigman was attached to the 95th evacuation hospital unit that followed the Fifth army in landing on Anzio beachhead.
She is survived by her parents; six brothers, Richard and Ronald near Cambridge; Billy and Franklin of the home; Roger with an army medical corps unit training at Great Bend, Kan., and Robert, a foreman in the Ravenna arsenal; two sisters, Miss Sarah Jane Sigman, of Akron and Mrs. Dorothy Diss, Cambridge, route 4; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Burt Whitis, East Wheeling avenue, city.
A sister, Mrs. Thelma Thompson, Byesville school teacher was instantly killed two years ago near Strasburg when the car she was driving was struck by a train.
The Zanesville News, Zanesville, OHIO
March 4, 1944