In Algeria
Iowa Falls, Ia. -- Miss Virginia Samsell, is now in Algeria in the military and naval welfare service for the American Red Cross, according to word received by her mother, Mrs, Lena Phillips Samsell
Miss Samsell works with neuropsychopathic patients at a station hospital. She is a graduate of the University of West Virginia, and did graduate study at the University of Cincinnati and New York university.
She was executive secretary of the Camp Fire Girls of the United States with headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind.; and was given a leave of absence for the duration to do Red Cross work. She had previously done recreation work in Cincinnati, O.; Detroit, Mich.; and Indianapolis, Ind.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - February 3, 1943 (photo included)
Miss Virginia Samsell Teaches Football to Soldier in Corsica
Miss Virginia Samsell, supervisor of recreation in a Red Cross hospital, has written to her mother, Mrs Lena Phillips Samsell, that she is now in Corsica. She says the island is beautiful with the white sandy beaches, snow-capped mountains and the blue Mediterranean. SH has been teaching Yugoslav solider who have never seen a football how to play the game. She is glad, she said, she had played with her brothers in the Samsell backyard.
Source: The Globe-Gazette, Mason City IA - April 14, 1944
Iowa Falls -- Miss Virginia Samsell, a hospital recreation worker for the American Red Cross for two years, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Lena Samsell and her sister, Mrs. Keith Canfield. Miss Samsell was in north Africa for more than a year, and recently has been in Corsica. She reports that men from all the allied nations have been in the hospital, and also some German prisoners. She has a month in the United States, then will return to foreign service. She was granted a leave of absence from her work as executive secretary of the Camp Fire Girls of the United States with headquarters in Indianapolis, Ind.
Source: The Courier, Waterloo IA - November 3, 1944
