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Article: WWII Red Cross Worker to be Buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- August 5, 1999
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News Advisory:
WHO: -- Jill McCaffrey, Red Cross National Chairman of Armed
Forces Emergency Services
-- Representatives from the United States Army
WHAT: The late Harriet Gowen, Red Cross worker during World War
II, will be laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
WHERE: Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington, Va.
WHEN: Friday, Aug. 6
Media must check in at Memorial Gate (Main entrance Arlington
National Cemetery) between 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m.
DETAILS: Harriet Gowen of Stillwater, Minn., was a Red Cross nurse
who fulfilled her desire to help her country during World War II by
working as a recreation specialist at a military hospital in New
Guinea. Ms. Gowen was declared missing in 1945. ...