About Ruth Agatha Houghton
Lived 1909 – 1986 (aged 76). Ruth Agatha Houghton was an American military officer and nurse.
Captain Ruth Agatha Houghton (June 29, 1909 – March 10, 1986) was an American nurse who served as the director of the United States Navy Nurse Corps from 1958 to 1962.
Early life Houghton was born in June 1909, the daughter of Joseph J. and Mary Houghton Kelley.
In 1932, she graduated from St. John's Hospital School of Nursing in Lowell, Massachusetts.
Navy Nurse Corps career Houghton was commissioned as an ensign in the United States Navy Nurse Corps on June 1, 1935. During her years of service, her duty stations included the Panama Canal Zone, Australia, and New Guinea. She died in March 1986 in Portsmouth, Virginia, at the age of 76.
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American nurse (1909-1986)
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Ruth Agatha Houghton was born on 29 June 1909 in Methuen.
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Ruth Agatha Houghton died on 10 March 1986 in Portsmouth.
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Ruth Agatha Houghton was a military officer and nurse.
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Ruth Agatha Houghton was American.
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