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Barbara Gier papers, 1942-1946, Date acquired: 05/24/2000

 

Summary

Creator:
Gier, Barbara
Extent:
1.00 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Barbara Gier papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-00-0545

Background

Scope and content:

This collections consists of World War II personal letters to family, primarily her mother, from Barbara Gier who served as a U.S. Army Nurse in France. Several letters provide vivid descriptions of the English and French countrysides.

Biographical / historical:

Barbara Gier was born in Seward, Nebraska on August 12, 1918 and passed away on January 3, 2016. She graduated from Friend High School in 1936, and then attended nurses' training at St. Catherine's Hospital in Omaha, Nebraska graduating in 1940. She enlisted in the U.S. Army in the Army Nurse Corps on April 19, 1943 and honorably discharged on April 19, 1946. During the war, she trained in California. In October of 1944, she transferred to France via England. She was assigned to the 190th General US Army Hospital and then the 203rd General Hospital near Paris, France from late 1944 through January 1946, when she returned to the United States. Upon her discharge she worked at St. Vincent's and St. John's Hospitals in Santa Monica, CA. She returned to Nebraska in 1978 with her mother. Barbara worked in Omaha at Maplecrest Care Center until her retirement in 1984. She then moved to Lincoln, Nebraska where she was a member of St. Teresa's Catholic Church.

Note written by Michael G. Kasper

Acquisition information:

Barbara Gier

Donation

Custodial history:

Transferred from the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience to FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives in July 2022.

Arrangement:

Chronological

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

All requests for permission to quote, publish, broadcast or otherwise reproduce from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Associate Dean for Special Collections & Archives. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Florida State University Libraries as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], [Box and Folder number], Barbara Gier papers, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/02-00-0545

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA