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    "ocrText": "N.Y.Times-Dre. 2 n.Y. Her Trib\nMISS ANNA W. KERR,\nMYH.\nEX-NURSE REGISTRAR\nAnna Kerr, Nurse, Dies;\nAided Red Cross in War\nServed in Wartime Post at Red\nServed in Washington and on\nCross Office in Washington\nBellevue Hospital Staff\nSpecial to the Herald Tribune\nLARCHMONT, N. Y., Nov. 30.-\nMiss Anna W. Kerr, wartime\nMiss Anna W. Kerr. who was regis-\nregistrar of nurses at the Washing-\ntrar of nurses at Red Cross head-\nton headquarters of the American\nquarters in Washington during the\nWorld War, died at her home here\nRed Cross, died yesterday at her\ntoday. She had been a nurse since\nhome in Larchmont, after a brief\nthe early 1890's when she was\nillness.\ngraduated from Bellevue Hospital's\nMiss Kerr had devoted her entire\nTraining School for Nurses in New\nlife to the nursing profession. She\nYork and had long been an intimate\ngraduated from the training school\nfriend of the late Miss Jane A\nat Bellevue Hospital in the Nineties\nDelano, organizer of the Red Cross\nand after a few years in private\nNursing Service, who died in France\npractice returned as assistant to the\nin 1919.\nlate Superintendent of Nurses, Miss\nMiss Kerr was born in Newburgh\nJane A. Delano Later she served\nN. Y., a daughter of George W\nas director of the New York City\nKerr and Mrs. Margaret Ludlow\nschool nurses in the division of\nBrown Kerr. Soon after her gradu-\nmental hygiene in the Department\nation from Bellevue she returned\nof Health.\nto the hospital as an assistant super-\nIn recent years Miss Kerr divided\nintendent of nurses under Miss\nher time between Larchmont and\nDelano. Later she became director\nCanton. Pa., where for several\nof school nurses, division of child\nyears she had shared a home with\nhygiene department of health, in\nMiss Delano before the latter's\nNew York City.\ndeath in France while serving as\nIn 1933 Miss Kerr unveiled the\ndirector of nursing for the Red\nmemorial to Miss Delano and other\nCross. Miss Kerr's long associa-\nwar nurses in Washington. In re-\ntion with Miss Delano led to her\ncent years she had divided her time\nbeing chosen to unveil the Red\nbetween her home here and one in\nCross memorial to Miss Delano and\nCanton, Pa., which she had once\nother wartime nurses in Washing-\nshared with Miss Delano.\nton.\nSurviving are two sister, Miss Mar-\nMiss Kerr, a native of Newburgh,\ngaret Kerr, with whom she lived,\nN. Y., was the daughter of George\nand Miss Elizabeth C. Kerr, of New-\nW. Kerr and Margaret Ludlow\nburgh, and a brother, John B. Kerr\nBrown Kerr. Surviving are her sis-\nof Wainscott, L. I.\nter, Miss Margaret Kerr, with\nwhom she resided; another sister,\nMiss Elizabeth C. Kerr of New-\nburgh, and a brother, John B. Kerr\nof Wainscott, L. I.\nFuneral services will be held at\n10:30 A. M. Friday at St. John's\nChurch, Larchmont. Burial will be\nin St. George's Cemetery, New-\nburgh.\nNOT-Decr\n[From Late Editions of Yesterday's TIMES.]"
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