Background
Wilma Leona Jackson was born to Roy and Carrie (Furnas) Class in Union, Ohio in 1909.
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Education
Graduated Miami Valley Hospital, Nurses Training School, Dayton, Ohio in 1930. Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Nursing Administration, Columbia University, New York City, 1952.
Career
Leona Jackson was appointed to the United States Navy Nurse Corps on 6 July 1936. She served her first few years, from 1936 until 1939 at the Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and then at the Naval Hospital, Brooklyn, New York from 1939 to 1940. In 1940, then Ensign Jackson was assigned to the Naval Hospital, Guam, Marianas Islands.
In December 1941, two days after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded and took all personnel prisoner.
Jackson and three other nurses, under the supervision of Chief Nurse Marian Olds, continued to work at the hospital until they were transported to Japan where they were held as prisoners of war until August 1942 when they were repatriated through Mozambique. Jackson was promoted to Lieutenant (junior grade) in 1943 and then, in 1944, she was assigned to the Navy"s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) in Washington, Doctorate. C.
After her promotion to LT in 1944, she returned to Guam where she was assigned to Fleet Hospital #103. She was the Senior Nurse Corps Officer in the Island Command until her transfer in December 1945.
1946 - Navy Department at Naval Dispensary, Washington, District of Columbia 1950 - Officer in Nursing Section of BUMED 1950-1952 - DUINS at Columbia University, New York City to get Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts in Nursing Administration 1952 - Naval Hospital, Oakland, California. 1953 - Chief Nurse, Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, Virginia. Director, Navy Nurse Corps 1 May 1954 - Director, United States Navy Nurse Corps 2 May 1954 - Officer Grade Limitation Acting of 1954 (Public Law #349) increase in temporary CDRs and LCDRs in the NNC Retired 1958 Captain Jackson retired to Ohio.
She died on 23 March 1998 at the Veteran"s Administration Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, and is buried at Polk Grove Cemetery in Vandalia, Ohio.
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March 23, 1998 (aged 89)