Ardis - Army Nurse’s Corp
Ardis was an OR nurse and after she and Claude were married she went back on duty. After a couple of weeks she started fainting in the OR…. She was checked out and she was pg — the doctor said that he would put down that she was 6 weeks along but her reply was, “Oh, doctor, you can’t do that, I’ve only been married 3 weeks!” —- I don’t know if he did or not but she was soon separated from the Army Nurses Corp.
She really had a hard time of it clothes wise. This was 1944 and you couldn’t buy much of anything without coupons and she no real civilian clothes plus the fact she inherited Mom’s narrow feet (as I did), so not only did she have trouble getting shoes she had even more trouble finding shoes that fit her. I think she wore a 8 AAA or AAAA (I wore a 6 1/2 AAAA/AAAAAA hel)… I think (but don’t know for a fact) that all the relatives pitched in clothing coupons for her. I know Mama was worried about her and her clothes.
Aunt Jan