Author Biographical Info

Leta Elizabeth Denham was born in 1895 in Hempstead, Waller County, Texas, and was one of sixteen children. She attended the Baptist Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Nurses in Houston, Texas, graduating from the program in 1919. The commencement ceremony was held at First Baptist Church in Houston on May 29, 1919. After graduating from nursing school Leta Denham went to China to fulfill her life-long dream of working as a missionary. She served as a medical missionary in Yingtak, China from 1921 to 1922.

Leta Denham married Marcus Jackson Scott in June 1921, and died in Langley, Washington in 1982.

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Identifier

MS181-004

Publication Date(s)

1918

Language

English

Description

Leta Denham, nursing student at the Baptist Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Nurses (later Memorial Hospital), is pictured with newborn babies. See more at Leta Denham, RN Papers and its finding aid.

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Keywords

Nursing--History, Nursing students, Health occupations schools » Nursing schools, Nursing, Houston (TX), Memorial Hospital System, Memorial Baptist Hospital Lillie Jolly School of Nursing, Baptist Sanitarium and Hospital Training School for Nurses, clippings (information artifacts), photographs, photographs » panoramic photographs, certificates, yearbooks

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