Gertrude Nelson - Revision history

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 Thereafter, Nelson worked as a nurse at a hospital on Rikers Island in [[New York City]], where one of her patients for a time was Mary Mallon, known as "[[Typhoid Mary]]". She was later recruited by the Red Cross for duty with the [[United States Army]] Nurse Corps during [[World War II]]. She achieved the rank of [[major]] before she retired from the Army and returned to her home area in [[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], across the Red River from the larger city of Alexandria. She was a nurse for the Central Louisiana Community Action Committee, an Alexandria-Pineville "anti-poverty" program established by [[Great Society]] legislation. She worked in area [[hospital]]s, nursing homes and did volunteer work.<ref name=obit/>
-On December 27, 1998, then [[Mayor]] Fred H. Baden issued a proclamation declaring "Gertrude Nelson Day" in Pineville. It was one day after her hundredth birthday.<ref name=obit/>
+On December 27, 1998, then [[Mayor]] [[Fred Baden]] issued a proclamation declaring "Gertrude Nelson Day" in Pineville. It was one day after her hundredth birthday.<ref name=obit/>
 Nelson died in the Veterans Affairs Medical Nursing Home in Pineville, aged 102 years and eleven months. She was survived by two adopted children, Gerald Williams of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], and Linda Nelson of the Taylor Hill community in Rapides Parish. Services were held in Nelson's home church, the Union [[Baptist]] Church in Colfax. Interment was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Pineville with full military honors through the Alexandria/Pineville Veterans Honor Guard. She often attended the Good Hope Baptist Church in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>

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 Nelson died in the Veterans Affairs Medical Nursing Home in Pineville, aged 102 years and eleven months. She was survived by two adopted children, Gerald Williams of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], and Linda Nelson of the Taylor Hill community in Rapides Parish. Services were held in Nelson's home church, the Union [[Baptist]] Church in Colfax. Interment was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Pineville with full military honors through the Alexandria/Pineville Veterans Honor Guard. She often attended the Good Hope Baptist Church in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>
-The family requested memorials to the [[Alzheimer's]] Association, P.O. Box 2471, Monroe, Louisiana 71207.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57228335|title=Gertrude DeWitt Nelson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
+The family requested memorials to the [[Alzheimer's]] Association, P.O. Box 2471, Monroe, Louisiana 71207.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57228335|title=Gertrude DeWitt Nelson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
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 | birth_date = December 26, 1898
 | birth_place =Colfax, Grant Parish, [[Louisiana]]
-| death_date =November 29, 2001
+| death_date =November 29, 2001 (aged 102)
 | death_place =[[Pineville, Louisiana|Pineville]], Louisiana
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 Nelson died in the Veterans Affairs Medical Nursing Home in Pineville, aged 102 years and eleven months. She was survived by two adopted children, Gerald Williams of [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], and Linda Nelson of the Taylor Hill community in Rapides Parish. Services were held in Nelson's home church, the Union [[Baptist]] Church in Colfax. Interment was in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Pineville with full military honors through the Alexandria/Pineville Veterans Honor Guard. She often attended the Good Hope Baptist Church in Pineville.<ref name=obit/>
-The family requested memorials to the [[Alzheimer's]] Association, P.O. Box 2471, Monroe, Louisiana 71207.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57228335|title=Gertrude DeWitt Nelson"|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
+The family requested memorials to the [[Alzheimer's]] Association, P.O. Box 2471, Monroe, Louisiana 71207.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=57228335|title=Gertrude DeWitt Nelson|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 28, 2017}}</ref>
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