| Summary: | Nurse Prudence Hathaway Burns Burrell was born March 23, 1916, in Mounds, Illinois. She earned her B.S. degree in public health from the University of Minnesota in 1951. Earlier she attended nursing school at General Hospital Number 2 in Kansas City and was certified in 1939. Burrell joined the United States Army Nurse Corps in 1942, and attained the rank of first lieutenant. In 1943, Burrell was sent to Station Hospital 268 in Sydney, Australia, and then to Brisbane, and eventually to Milinea Bay, New Guinea, in 1944, where she taught first-aid techniques to other units and specialized in malaria treatment. Transferred to the Philippine Islands in 1945, Burrell met and later married Lieutenant Lowell Burrell. She taught mathematics in the Detroit Public Schools and became a health care analyst for the State of Michigan. Burrell published her memoir, Hathaway, in 1997. Burrell passed away on February 29, 2012, at age 95.
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