Frankie Thelma Lewey was the red-headed devil of the plains ... always on the go.
She was stubborn, obstinate, mule-headed, and exasperating for adults ... and sometimes impossible to get along with.
Franke was fill with ideas ... peoples, places, things to do ...
She had a brilliant mind and a need to learn, a need to experience, a need of knowledge, a need of a place to apply that knowledge.
She pursued an education and entered nursing. Ths was at a ttime when girls from good families simply did not go into nursing.
Frankie was one of the many nurses who worked for one dollar ($1.00) a day and a meal during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
She entered the Army Nurse Corps at a time when that was not acceptable. Why? because they would see men's bodies. ... And, public opinion saw nursing as next-thing-to prostitution.
Frankie's mother, Emma Lewey, was quoted in the 'Dalhart Texan' newspaper saying, Frankie stated she wanted to be in the thick of it if war broke out. Frankie was stationed in Manila.
Thirty (30) minutes before Bataan fell to the Japanese, she was on the last barge to be pulled away from the Bataan penninsula, to the isle of Corregidor. She spent three years as a POW of the Japanese and was liberated by the US Army First Cavalry Division. Frankie married Lt Francis Jerrett, one of the 1st Cavalry Division's liberators, in January 1946.
"All I wanted to do was change the world ..." FTL
More information is found on her web page, [http://www.cnac.org/emilscott/lewey01.htm]
She was stubborn, obstinate, mule-headed, and exasperating for adults ... and sometimes impossible to get along with.
Franke was fill with ideas ... peoples, places, things to do ...
She had a brilliant mind and a need to learn, a need to experience, a need of knowledge, a need of a place to apply that knowledge.
She pursued an education and entered nursing. Ths was at a ttime when girls from good families simply did not go into nursing.
Frankie was one of the many nurses who worked for one dollar ($1.00) a day and a meal during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
She entered the Army Nurse Corps at a time when that was not acceptable. Why? because they would see men's bodies. ... And, public opinion saw nursing as next-thing-to prostitution.
Frankie's mother, Emma Lewey, was quoted in the 'Dalhart Texan' newspaper saying, Frankie stated she wanted to be in the thick of it if war broke out. Frankie was stationed in Manila.
Thirty (30) minutes before Bataan fell to the Japanese, she was on the last barge to be pulled away from the Bataan penninsula, to the isle of Corregidor. She spent three years as a POW of the Japanese and was liberated by the US Army First Cavalry Division. Frankie married Lt Francis Jerrett, one of the 1st Cavalry Division's liberators, in January 1946.
"All I wanted to do was change the world ..." FTL
More information is found on her web page, [http://www.cnac.org/emilscott/lewey01.htm]
Frankie Thelma Lewey was the red-headed devil of the plains ... always on the go.
She was stubborn, obstinate, mule-headed, and exasperating for adults ... and sometimes impossible to get along with.
Franke was fill with ideas ... peoples, places, things to do ...
She had a brilliant mind and a need to learn, a need to experience, a need of knowledge, a need of a place to apply that knowledge.
She pursued an education and entered nursing. Ths was at a ttime when girls from good families simply did not go into nursing.
Frankie was one of the many nurses who worked for one dollar ($1.00) a day and a meal during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
She entered the Army Nurse Corps at a time when that was not acceptable. Why? because they would see men's bodies. ... And, public opinion saw nursing as next-thing-to prostitution.
Frankie's mother, Emma Lewey, was quoted in the 'Dalhart Texan' newspaper saying, Frankie stated she wanted to be in the thick of it if war broke out. Frankie was stationed in Manila.
Thirty (30) minutes before Bataan fell to the Japanese, she was on the last barge to be pulled away from the Bataan penninsula, to the isle of Corregidor. She spent three years as a POW of the Japanese and was liberated by the US Army First Cavalry Division. Frankie married Lt Francis Jerrett, one of the 1st Cavalry Division's liberators, in January 1946.
"All I wanted to do was change the world ..." FTL
More information is found on her web page, [http://www.cnac.org/emilscott/lewey01.htm]
She was stubborn, obstinate, mule-headed, and exasperating for adults ... and sometimes impossible to get along with.
Franke was fill with ideas ... peoples, places, things to do ...
She had a brilliant mind and a need to learn, a need to experience, a need of knowledge, a need of a place to apply that knowledge.
She pursued an education and entered nursing. Ths was at a ttime when girls from good families simply did not go into nursing.
Frankie was one of the many nurses who worked for one dollar ($1.00) a day and a meal during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
She entered the Army Nurse Corps at a time when that was not acceptable. Why? because they would see men's bodies. ... And, public opinion saw nursing as next-thing-to prostitution.
Frankie's mother, Emma Lewey, was quoted in the 'Dalhart Texan' newspaper saying, Frankie stated she wanted to be in the thick of it if war broke out. Frankie was stationed in Manila.
Thirty (30) minutes before Bataan fell to the Japanese, she was on the last barge to be pulled away from the Bataan penninsula, to the isle of Corregidor. She spent three years as a POW of the Japanese and was liberated by the US Army First Cavalry Division. Frankie married Lt Francis Jerrett, one of the 1st Cavalry Division's liberators, in January 1946.
"All I wanted to do was change the world ..." FTL
More information is found on her web page, [http://www.cnac.org/emilscott/lewey01.htm]
