ELIZABETH AGNES LAWLOR ABELL

Class of 1939

Elizabeth Agnes Lawlor was born on April 15, 1917 in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. Her parents were William A. Lawlor and Margaret E. Kemp/Camp.

At the time of the 1930 Federal Census of Eldersville Village, Jefferson Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania, William A. Lawlor, a Coal Mine Foreman, and his wife, Margaret E., had the following children: Elizabeth, 12, Margaret, 11, Kathleen, 10, Helen, 9, Josephine, 5, and Dorothy, 3.

In 1940, Elizabeth Lawlor, 23, was a Registered Nurse and lived at the Nurses' Home at St. Francis Hospital. During World War II, Elizabeth Lawlor served in the U. S. Army Nurse Corps. She is named in a Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article, dated March 18, 1943, as a nurse from St. Francis Hospital. She entered Active Service on July 20, 1942, and she separated from Active Service on May 30, 1946.

FATHER'S OBITUARY: Pittsburgh Press, January 8, 1952: LAWLOR - At McDonald, Pa., on Sunday, Jan. 6, William A. Lawlor, husband of Margaret Camp; father of Mrs. Elizabeth Abell, of McDona;d, Pa.; Mrs. Margaret Laurent, of Avella, Pa.; Mrs. Kathleen Morrow, Steubenville, Ohio; Mrs. Helen Emmerich, of Titusville, Pa.; Mrs. Josephine Zufelt, of Oil City, Pa., and Mrs. Dorothy Jenkins, of Pgh., Pa.; brother of Joseph Lawlor, Bridgeville, Pa.; Mrs. Mary Marsh, of Greensburg, Pa.; Mrs. Gertrude McShane, of Mt. Lebanon, Pa., and Mrs. Bertha Walker, Detroit, Mich.... Burial in St. Agatha's Cemetery, Bridgeville, Pa.

Elizabeth Avell worked as a School Nurse in Washington County, at least in the 1950s.

The death of Elizabeth occurred on August 6, 2005; last residence, Scotts Valley, Santa Cruz, California.



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