Rebecca Graham Catlin Collection

Biography

Rebecca Vaughan Graham Catlin was born in Goshen, Virginia in 1924. She graduated from Goshen High School in 1942 and attended Farmville State Teachers College for a year and a half while taking pre-nursing courses. Rebecca graduated from the Johns Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing in 1947. She married Dr. Francis Irving Catlin, a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital, in 1948. She worked as an operating room nurse at King’s Daughters’ Hospital in Staunton, Virginia from 1947 to 1948, as a public health nurse for the Baltimore City Health Department from 1948 to 1950, and as a pediatric clinic nurse at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington D.C. in 1951. She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of the Altar Guild at her church. Rebecca Graham Catlin died in Houston, Texas in 2008.

Scope and Content

The Rebecca Graham Catlin Collection consists of her student nursing cape.

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