REGINA M. CORSI SEWALL

Class of 1940


Corsi

Regina M. Corsi of Bradford, Pennsylvania married Kenneth W. Sewall of Brookline, Massachusetts on December 24, 1945 in the state of Maine.

OBITUARY

Morning Sentinel - WATERVILLE - Regina Nazzarena Sewall, 93, died Thursday, Feb. 28, 2013, at her residence. She was born Jan. 27, 1920 in Bradford, Pa., the daughter of Teresa and Augusto Corsi. - She attended St. Bernard's Elementary and High schools. After graduation, she went on to the Saint Francis School of Nursing in Pittsburgh, Pa. She received her R.N. in October 1940 and was employed by the hospital. In 1943, she entered the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps as an ensign and served at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital until July 1944. She was then transferred to the San Leandro Naval Hospital in California, where she met Dr. Kenneth Sewall whom she married in December 1945. In March 1945 she graduated from the School for Air Evacuations at the U.S. Naval Air Station in Alameda, Calif. As a flight nurse, she attended casualties to the war in the Pacific as they were flown back from forward areas. - After peace was declared, she joined a team of active service people promoting the sale of U. S. Bonds in the Pittsburgh area. She was discharged from the service March 1946 with the rank of lieutenant junior grade. - Arriving in Waterville, she helped her husband in the first months of his practice and did the same when he became semi-retired for a four-year period. - She was predeceased by her husband, Dr. Kenneth Sewall; and a daughter, Nancy. - She is survived by her three sons, Richard, and wife Gwyn, Peter and companion Lynette and Robert and wife Mia; her stepson, Jay; four granddaughters; two grandsons; one great-granddaughter; and two great-grandsons. - Burial will be in St. Francis Catholic Cemetery, 78 Grove St., Waterville at a later date.


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