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ELIZABETH
H. WEIMANN was a nurse at Cooper Hospital until she enlisted with the
American Red Cross and went overseas. She did splendid work, especially
in connection with the Spanish influenza epidemic of the fall of 1918.
Miss Weimann contracted this malady and died on November 6, 1918. She
was the only woman from
Camden County NJ to give her life during World War I.
Elizabeth
Weimann
was survived by her
parents, Max and Bertha Helen Weimann of 217 Ninth
Avenue, Haddon Heights NJ, and younger brother, Max L. Weimann. The
family had moved to 217 Ninth Avenue in Haddon Heights NJ by January of
1920, when the census was taken. Nurse Weimann was brought home to
American and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington,
Virginia on January 14, 1921.
The
Weimann family remained in Haddon Heights
through 1978
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