Faith S. Hawkins Collection

Only a part of this collection has been digitized.

3 August, 2005 oral history transcript; formal portrait photograph of Faith, circa 1943; and photographs of Faith with the Cadet Nurse Corps, circa 1946; Cadet Nurse Corps News Vol.1 No. 7 Dated March 1946; Cadet Nurse Corps "Flashbacks" dated 2/5 1995; one page comic strip style graphic detailing service of a Cadet Nurse.

Faith Sparks Hawkins (1927-2018) of Wilkes County, North Carolina, trained as a nurse with the Cadet Nurse Corps from 1944 to 1947, then practiced at Veterans Administration hospitals and facilities in North Carolina. Faith Sparks Hawkins was born in Forsyth County, North Carolina, on 22 February 1927 and raised in Wilkes County. She was the fourth of five children. She graduated from Wilkesboro High School in 1943, and worked in a local store before attending nursing school. From 1944 to 1947, Hawkins attended nursing school at H.F. Long Hospital in Statesville, North Carolina, through the Cadet Nurse Corps. She then returned to North Wilkesboro and worked in obstetrics and delivery at Fred C. Hubbard Hospital, and also did another year of training at Queens College in Charlotte. Hawkins also worked at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in the late 1940s and the Crile Veterans Administration Hospital in Ohio in the early 1950s. Faith Hawkins married Hal Hawkins in 1950 and had four children. They lived in Wilkes County, where Hal Hawkins had a medical practice and Faith Hawkins continued her nursing career.

Women's History
Military

Cadet Nurse Corps

World War II era (1940-1946)

World War, 1939-1945
Military nursing--United States--History

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