Des Moines in the Service
Lenora Weirick and Josephine C. Ballard, both of Des Moines, have been appointed second lieutenant in the army nurse corps.
Source: Des Moines Tribune, May 16, 1944
Josephine Charlotte Ballard was born Sept. 6, 1918 to Adam and Zetta Gnade Ballard. She died Dec. 31, 1995.
Josephine served in World War II with the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
Source: ancestry.com
