Keokuk County

Lt. Regina Vogel

 

 

 

IOWA CITY NEWS BRIEFS

-- Regina Vogel, Iowa City Mercy hospital nurse, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the nurses corps. Miss Vogel will leave Oct. 15 for Fort Leavenworth, Kan., to join the Red Cross nursing headquarters there.

Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA - October 9, 1941

WOMEN IN SERVICE

Miss Katherine Vogel, 625 East Bloomington street, has received word that her sister, Lieut. Regina Vogel, has arrived safely in England. Lieutenant Vogel, a graduate of the Mercy hospital school of nursing, entered the service October 14, 1941, and has been stationed at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., Camp Forrest, Tenn., and Camp Phillips, Kan.

Source: Iowa City Press Citizen, October 7, 1943 (photo included)

2 Iowa Women Killed in Airliner Crash

Four Former Iowans Also Are Victims

Two Iowans and a former East Iowan were killed in the crash of a United Air Lines DC-8 jetliner at Denver Tuesday:

Regina Vogel - Sigourney

Regina Vogel was returning to her job as superintendent of nurses at the Veterans hospital in Oakland, Calif., after a 2-week visit with relatives here.

Her body will be returned to the Reynolds funeral home here.

A native of the Clear Creek area, she was graduated fro Mercy hospital school of nursing in Iowa City. During World War II, she served as a nurse in England.

Survivors include 5 brothers and 6 sisters.

Source: The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, IA - July 12, 1961