Background
Gaumer, Otie Leona was born on December 6, 1910 in Ryan, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of James Oscar and Gaythel (Hamilton) McKee.
Gaumer, Otie Leona was born on December 6, 1910 in Ryan, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of James Oscar and Gaythel (Hamilton) McKee.
Graduate, Nazareth School Nursing, 1934. Postgraduate, Ohio State University, 1958. Postgraduate, University Michigan, 1959.
Surgical nurse St. Joseph Hospital, Lexington, Kentucky, 1934, Mercy Hospital, Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1934—1937, 1948—1952, 1952—1957. Private practice, 1937—1940. Public health nurse Mount Vernon, 1957—1976.
Board directors Knox County Tuberculosis Health Association, Mount Vernon, 1957—1965, Knox County Crippled Children Association, Mount Vernon, 1957—1982. With Immunization Clinic, 1958, Home Health Agency, 1964, Tuberculosis Skin Testing Clinic, 1959, Pediatrics and Blood Pressure Clinics, 1973. Public program director Knox County Heart Association, Mount Vernon, 1963—1969.
Member of Ohio State Nurses Association, Kentucky State Nurses Association, American Nurses Association.
Married Lloyd Emil Gaumer, January 23, 1937. Children: Jane Arlene Gaumer Hoffman, Lloyd Emil Junior.