RUSSELL, Zilpha KAMP 1895 - 1992

RUSSELL, KAMP, WALKER

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 9/27/2011 at 21:57:15

"The Fairfield Ledger"
Tuesday, July 21, 1992
Page 12

Zilpha KAMP RUSSELL

Zilpha KAMP RUSSELL, 97, of Nelson Nursing Home, died at 11:15 p.m. Monday, July 20, 1992, at Jefferson County Hospital.

The body was cremated and a private committal service will be conducted at Evergreen Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at a time to be announced later. A memorial has been established to the Fairfield Public Library in the name of the Russell Family Endowment Fund. Checks should be made out to Fairfield Public Library. Raymond Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. RUSSELL was born June 4, 1895, in Fairfield, the youngest daughter of Henry and Sarah WALKER KAMP. She graduated from Fairfield High School, where she was the first female elected as editor-in-chief of the Fairfield High School Quill (third edition, 1914). She enrolled in the second class of the Jefferson County Hospital Training School for Nurses and graduated in September 1917. On June 18, 1918, she volunteered for the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and after an indoctrinational period was shipped to the 114th Medical Evacuation Hospital at Fluery-Sur-Aire, France. On July 25, 1921, she married Park G. RUSSELL in Des Moines. He died Jan. 30, 1949.

Mrs. RUSSELL accomplished a number of significant firsts for women. She was the only woman born and raised in Fairfield to enter the U.S. Army during World War I. She was the first nurse to teach home nursing in Fairfield High School as a credit course under the sponsorship of the American Red Cross; first industrial nurse hired in Fairfield; first woman elected to Fairfield City Council; first woman to act as mayor of Fairfield during the illness of the incumbent mayor; the first woman to be honored by Fairfield Chamber of Commerce for community service and civic leadership (1973).

Surviving are a son, Carl K. of San Antonio, Texas; two granddaughters and two great-granddaughters. She was preceded in death by an infant daughter and three sisters, Laura, May and Bird.

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