Needles, Helen M. – d. 1937

NEEDLES

Posted By: Diana Wagner
Date: 7/13/2021 at 21:35:40

Newton’s First School Nurse Dies
Helen M. Needles, 52, Dies in Atlantic, Ia., Hospital; Rites Thursday
Miss Helen M. Needles, 52, of Des Moines, first nurse in the Newton public schools, died in an Atlantic, Ia., hospital Monday, where she submitted to a major operation last Thursday. She had gone to Anita to visit relatives.
Funeral services will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the E. Carl White Funeral Home in Des Moines, here the body was cremated.
Miss Needles had never fully recovered from injuries suffered in two automobile accidents several years ago. She was a patient for some time after the accidents in the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines and later at Hines General hospital near Chicago.
Miss Needles left the employ of the Newton schools in 1918, to enter service in the World War and was stationed some time at St. Denis, France. She was transferred to the Red Cross and sent to Italy, where she was cited by the Italian government for her nursing work.
She left the Red Cross in 1919, and became girls advisor at East high school in Des Moines. She was at one time supervisor of nurses at the Iowa Methodist hospital in Des Moines.
Miss Needles was a member of the Legion and Legion Auxiliary, American Red Cross, Federated Business and Professional Women’s club, Iowa State Nurses Association, Iowa Unit of Women’s Overseas Service League, and the Jane A. Delano Nursing club.
Three sisters and two brothers survive.
Source: Newton Daily News; Wednesday, January 27, 1937