Washburn, Joyce Skinner (Interview outline and video), 2015

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Title

Washburn, Joyce Skinner (Interview outline and video), 2015

Contributor

Smither, James (Interviewer)
WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.)

Description

Joyce Washburn was born in October 1949 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She enlisted in the Navy Reserves in May 1968 and received basic training at U.S. Naval Training Center at Bainbridge, Maryland in August 1968. She returned to college then went to Naval Hospital Corps School at Great Lakes Naval Station, Illinois where she learned how to be a corpsman. She stayed in the Navy Reserves for twenty six years working at the hospitals at Great Lakes Naval Station, San Diego, and Pensacola. She also got to work at Bethesda Naval Hospital and U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in Washington D.C. During her time in the Navy Reserves she helped with domestic abuse programs, drug abuse programs, and psychological trauma programs. After her service she helped a fellow veteran, Dr. Edward Byrd, with the creation of a memorial for her fiance, Dennis Lobbezoo, who was killed in Vietnam in June 1968.

Date

2015-02-19

Rights

Publisher

Grand Valley State University Libraries. Allendale, Michigan

Relation

Veterans History Project (U.S.)

Identifier

RHC-27_WashburnJ1734V

Format

video/x-m4v
application/pdf

Type

Text
Moving Image

Citation

Washburn, Joyce Skinner, “Washburn, Joyce Skinner (Interview outline and video), 2015,” Digital Collections, accessed December 23, 2024, https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/document/40705.
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