Nora Emelia Anderson, ANC, Her Service, Illness and Death as written by her attending clergyman

Source: Copies sent to Jo-Ann Power from Nadia Ezz-Eddine, Cemetery Associate, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France.

Nora E. Anderson, an Army Nurse Corps volunteer, lies at rest in the St. Mihiel American Cemetery in France. Nora who was born in Rock Dell, Minnesota in 1881, joined the Corps in 1918 and sailed abroad to work in Base Hospital #68. There she became very ill and died. As she lay dying, she asked for the last rites to be given her, if possible, by a Lutheran minister. Chaplains, always busy at the front and in hospitals, were scarce. But a Lutheran minister happened along and those who nursed Nora asked this gentleman to attend her.

This article is his story, a three-page original, reproduced as jpeg from Lutheran Church Herald written by Gustav Stearns, Chaplain, 127th Infantry, AEF, preaching in France.

Details of Nora’s life, recounted in Chaplain Sterns’ article include:

Her birth. 1.15.1881

Her death: 1.17.1919

Sworn in to service:  2.18.1918

Overseas duty: Base Hospital #68, Mars-sur-Alliers, France

Died in Base Hospital #68 1.16.1919.

Buried initially in Mars-sur-Allier, France, 1.17.1919

Moved to and Buried: St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

Grave #30, Row 11, Block A.

The photo of Nora’s grave was taken by Jo-Ann Power when touring St. Mihiel Cemetery with Nadia Ezz-Eddine in 2013.