Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Edith Dee Hall May Be The Most Important Kimball Native You Never Heard Of
Edith Dee Hall, founder of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, and her sister Beatrice Sheahan are buried next to each other in Kimball Cemetery. Hall, a 1915 Kimball County High School graduate, is pictured at left in her later years. She died in 1971.
Edith Dee Hall's gravestone at Kimball Cemetery is inscribed, simply, with 1897-1971.
What's important, though, is not the birth and death years on one's grave marker.
It's that dash between the years.
It's how a person lived during the dash – and Edith Dee Hall lived quite the dash. She might be the most accomplished Kimball native that Kimball doesn't know much, if anything, about.
"It's not every day that a little girl from Kimball, Nebraska, helps change the way surgery is done around the world," said Brenda Ulmer, a renowned perioperative nurse and past board president of AORN, the Associ...