Commissioned
Miss Nadine Ripperton, R.N., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ripperton, 2032 Mississippi boulevard, Bettendorf, has been commissioned an army nurse with the rank of lieutenant and will leave Thursday for Buckley Field, Denver, Colo.
Miss Ripperton is a graduate of Maquoketa high school and received nurses training at Sterling Public hospital, Sterling, Ill., and Mercy hospital, Chicago.
Source: The Daily Times, Davenport IA - Feb. 2, 1943 (photo included)
The Girls Volunteered
Since there weren't any boys of draft age in Pfc. Anna Lee Ripperton's family, she and two other sisters have entered the service. Her eldest sister, Second Lt. Nadine Ripperton is in the army nurse corps and was stationed at Buckley field in Denver, Colo., prior to the time when she was placed in the army-navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark.
Another sister, Pvt. Patricia Aileen Ripperton, is also in the corps doing cadre work in the company five regiment at Des Moines, Iowa, where Pfc. Anna Ripperton took her basic training which began on 'Pearl Harbor Day' 1943. Pfc. Ripperton is assistant supply clerk on the detachment here.
Source: The Hill Top Times, Hill Airforce Base Utah - February 1, 1945
