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Newell - Ethel

Source: Crawfordsville Daily Journal Thursday, Oct 24, 1918 p 1

-- Miss Ethel Newell died this morning at Culver Union Hospital from pneumonia. She had been ill since a week ago Sunday and had been critically ill for the past two or three days. She had come home from Terre Haute where she was visiting nurse, weakened from over work and reported to the Wabash SATC Hospital to assist in the nursing there but she was only able to nurse a short time when she was forced to give up nursing because of an attack of the influenza. Miss Newell had been nursing for the past 8 years and until recently had been doing splendid work as visiting nurse at Terre Haute. She received her training from the Home Hospital at Lafayette. At the time of her death Miss Newell was 30 years old. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Newell, two (sic) sisters, Mrs. Katherine Blackwell of Indianapolis, and one brother, Roy, also of this place. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of this city. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home of her parents on Woodlawn Avenue. Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery. ==kbz
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