Ursula Tibbels Auer

Ursula Tibbels Auer (April 23, 1883 – May 26, 1981) was an American nurse, social worker, clubwoman, and businesswoman. She was an American Red Cross nurse in Europe during World War I. In the 1920s she was co-founder and president of a baby food company based in Seattle.

Early life and education Tibbels was born in Grant City, Missouri, the daughter of Thomas Charles Tibbels and Anna Rebecca Holliday Tibbels. She earned a nursing degree at a hospital in Kansas, and later she studied food science at the University of Washington.

Career Tibbels taught school in Missouri as a young woman, and was secretary of the Washington State Nurses Association in the 1910s. During World War I, she was a nurse in Europe, including work in France, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, and Italy. She was awarded the Cross of Mercy for her work in Serbia.

In the 1920s, Auer was co-founder (with her "girlhood friend" Lilla Cobb Norman In the 1930s, she was a school nurse and social worker, and she directed the Junior Red Cross Clinic in Seattle. During World War II, she taught first aid and home nursing classes, and demonstrated the use of gas masks. In the 1950s, she was vice-president and director of the Seattle area chapter of the Women's Overseas Service League.

Publications "How the Violet's Wish Was Granted" (1921) "A Day in the Clinic" (1939) They had two children, Thomas and Elizabeth. Her husband died in 1952, and she died in 1981, at the age of 98, in Elma, Washington.