Hazel Frances Evans Foreman of Hardy County, WV. 

Hazel Frances Evans was born on November 28, 1902 at Kessell, Hardy County, 
WV, the second child born to Marcellus A. Evans and Ida Catherine Kessell Evans. 
 She had one older sister, Grace, born 1900, and a younger sister, Delphia, born
1904, and the youngest, a brother, Quentin, born 1905. Their mother died in
February, 1906, and the three girls lived with their paternal grandparents,
Benjamin F. Evans and Frances Evans. Quentin, was raised my his aunt and
uncle, Amby and Bett Bergdoll. In 1909, Marcellus married Pearl Ogden and the
3 girls then joined him and his new wife. Hazel attended the one room schools of hardy 
County at Frosty Hollow, Kessell, and Powder Lick. She completed 11 years and 
then worked in retail stores
at Martin and Keyser, WV. In 1924 she enrolled at Shepherd College and
attended one semester. In February, 1925 she accompanied a friend who was
enrolling in nurses' training at Winchester Memorial Hospital,
Winchester,
Virginia. At the urging of the superintendent, Hazel also entered nurses
training without any prethought or arrangements. The program was for 3
years
and she entered with 15 other students. After 2 years, her grades were so
excellent, she was allowed o take her state board examinations and she
became a registered nurse one year in advance of actually finishing her
formal
training. She began work as a private duty nurse in the Winchester area.
She married Ercell O. Foreman on December 22, 1928, in Hagerstown, MD.
In 1930, Hazel Evans Foreman began working as a relief supervisor at
Winchester
Memorial Hospital and served as a clinical instructor in the Training
School. She became fulltime at the hospital in 1935 and served as a
supervisor in obstetrics and surgical nursing. She also served as a
clinical
instructor in the training school for nurses and as a part of the
instructional
faculty for the Cadet Student Nurses Training Program during World War II
to accelerate the training of registered nurses needed for the war
effort.
In 1960, she became Evening Supervisor of the Winchester Memorial
Hospital
which had become a 400 bed regional medical center. She was in charge of
surgery, the emergency room and the psychiatric floor. She continued
in this capacity until her official retirement on June 30, 1978 at
which time she celebrated 50 years in nursing and as an employee
of the Winchester Memorial Hospital. In that 50 years, she had used only
one three month leave of absence and only 4 weeks of sick leave. At
her retirement, she was recognized by local, state and national leaders
and her story was carried by radio commentator Paul Harvey on his regular
broadcast. She continued to do parttime nursing at the hospital and
private duty nursing until the day of her sudden death on October 12,
1981.
She is buried in Ebnezer Christian Church Cemetery in Frederick County,
VA.
A nursing scholarship is now provided in her memory by the Winchester
Medical Center.
She is survived by one son, Michael Marcellus Foreman, of Winchester,
Virginia and his wife, Veerle
Stickley Foreman and two grandsons, David Alexander Foreman and Stewart
Douglas Foreman.
Hazel Evans Foreman was a poud daughter of her beloved West Virginia who
took great joy in caring from those West Virginians hospitalized under
her care. She was the "Nurse's nurse who never met a stranger and was
truly an "angel of mercy" on this earth. 


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