Rivena SPENCER

SPENCER, TYEK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/17/2007 at 01:12:39

Chief Pediatrics Nurse Dies

Miss Rivena Spencer, head nurse under Dr. Biefeld of the Pediatrics department of the University died shortly after noon sunday [1918]. She came from Eagle Grove and was a graduate of the Chicago Children's Hospital in 1912. She was twenty-seven years old and leaves her parents of Pennsylvania, where her father is in the ship building service; three brothers, two of them in the army, and a sister, Mrs. John Tyek of Eagle Grove. She herself was awaiting transportation enabling her to cross overseas as a Red Cross nurse. This heroic nurse died of the malady that she had helped others to fight and succumbed after an week's illness. The remains will be taken to Eagle Grove.

Iowa City Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
October 14, 1918