Cool Picture of Myrtle Henderson Rockwell........Lieutenant Navy Nurse.

   Being a Nurse was very important to Myrtle. She wanted people to get good Care when they came to either the hospital or just to the doctor, the nurse is where it starts. So it was important to her to do well and make people feel at ease.

   I read an essay that Myrtle kept from her grade school years. The essay was to be written on what you think you might want to do in life. Huh? What child knows what they want to do for the rest of their life? Well some do. I have known one or two personally that knew from childhood what they wanted to do. 
Myrtle said in her essay that she either wanted to be a Teacher or a Nurse. She also commented that she never taught anybody so she wasn't sure if she'd like to do that; on the other hand she did care for both her mom and sister on occasion whenever they were sick. She wrote that she liked doing that, and based on that in her essay she said, "Well, I guess I'll be a Nurse."  That's when it started. When she graduated from high school she  then went to Pomona Community College and from there to Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara for training. Some stories about that but maybe another time. She did tell me of her training Nurse and what an impact she had on Myrtle's whole career as a Nurse. So you never know how or in what way you might impact someones life. Myrtle was commissioned in the Navy in 1938. I have one cool picture;

I am not sure where she is but that is a wing from a Japanese war plane. You can see the Zero, as they called them on the wing there.   How cool is that. Myrtle is doing two things she loves; Nursing and serving her Country in the Navy, and has experiences like this. Very Cool. 

It was a privilege to serve her when she needed help after my Mother passed from cancer. I miss her greatly. She was a good friend, best I could ever have. 
Did I mention I began helping Myrtle in April of 2001 shortly after her doctor put her on Hospice for Congestive Heart Failure? I began making some good healthy meals for her with some nutrition and in six months she went fro 105lbs to 125lbs and heart doctor said, "you are fine Mrs. Rockwell."  She lived 10 years after that, and she really had some fun. So you never know, neither do the doctors. :) More later.