Marie Anna Simon
Kentucky Post, Monday, 4 March 1918, page 1
Exercises will be held Wednesday, March 20, for graduates of Speers Hospital, Dayton, instead of May 8, because several members of the class are to go to France with Kentucky Base Hospital Unit No 40, now being mobilized at Camp Zachary Taylor, Louisville.
Anna Pracht, Delila Sparks and Marie Simon, members of the 1918 class will go to France for service with the Kentucky unit. Josephine Sullivan, graduate nurse, will also go. Bertha McClain and Rose Neiser, graduates left with a Cincinnati unit several weeks ago. Christine Fortlage and Charlotte Willis, members of this years graduating class are not contemplating foreign service because they expect to do cantonment work in this country.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 19 March 1918, page 1
Graduating exercises for the 1918 class of the Speers Hospital Memorial Hospital Training School, Dayton, will be held Wednesday night at the hospital auditorium. Miss Sophie Steinhauer is superintendent of the hospital and is in charge of the training of nurses.
Graduates shown in a photo are: standing (from left to right) Delila Margaret Sparks, Ashland and Charlotte Willis, Bellevue. Seated (from left to right) Marie Anna Simon, Cincinnati; Christine Fortlage, Newport and Anna Marie Pracht, Newport.
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Kentucky Post, Friday, 5 April 1918, page 1
Three 1918 graduate nurses of Speers Hospital, Dayton, will leave Sunday noon over C&O RR for Camp Upton, Yaphank, Long Island, NY from which port they will board transports to sail for France. The nurses are Delia Sparks, Anna Pracht and Marie Simon. They graduated several weeks ago and were notified of their sailing time Friday.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 29 January 1919, page 4
The Liberty Belles held a meeting at the home of Miss Marie Spielmeier on W Seventh st. Newport, Friday night. A social hour was enjoyed after the election of officers. Those elected were; President, Miss Marie Simon; secretary, Miss Anna Dapper; treasurer, Miss Ida Biery.
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Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 16 September 1919, page 4
The date of Dayton's homecoming celebration has been changed from Sept 27 to Oct 1, the committee announced Monday. The names of the girls who served in France with the Red Cross, either as nurses or canteen workers, will adorn the tablet along with the names of the soldiers.
They are, Anna Pracht, Marie Simon, Delilah Sparks, Josephine Sullivan, Olive Soden, Etta Haverkamp, Susie Salt, Gertrude Buch, Rose Neiser, Eliza K Thomas and Mary Kreidler.
Page 1-Picture: left to right, top; Anna Pracht, Delilah Sparks and Marie Simon; center, Pearl Hoffman; below, Rose Neiser and Etta Kaverkamp.
When the 450 men in Dayton enlisted at the outbreak of the war, 18 girls, too, heard the call of their country and enlisted to go across with these men. They duty was to wait behind the lines, within earshot of the "big Bertha" and howitzers, to administer relief to those stricken men. As stretcher after stretcher came up laden with desperately wounded and dying men these brave girls dressed their wounds an cheered them with talk of home, tho each one feared they would never return
War veterans and brave nurses said they were satisfied with the warm welcome given them by their families and friends, but no so residents of Dayton. Such service as these young people performed cannot be too greatly landed, so a handsome bronze tablet, ornamented with a giant eagle and two battle scenes, was purchased and on this table will be emblazoned the names of all the men and women who left Dayton to give their service to their country.
Miss Delilah Sparks, upon landing in New York re-enlisted immediately for further government service; Marie Simon is on duty in a Cincinnati hospital; Etta Haverkamp and Pearl Hoffman are on duty at Speers Hospital.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 22 September 1919, page 4
The bronze tablet which will be unveiled in Dayton public square Oct 4, will bear the names of soldiers, sailors, marines and nurses who went out from Dayton to do their bit in the war.
Marie A Simon
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 18 August 1924, page 6
Samuel Wolf, 44, was in serious condition at General Hospital Monday, following an auto accident at Newtown Sunday. The women who received minor injuries were Electra Gray, 17, of Covington and Miss Marie Simon, 23, of 202 Main st. Clifton Ky.