Thelan, Ethelda
Description
Ethelda Thelan was born November 10, 1919 and came to Nevada in June of 1951, after obtaining her nursing degree from the University of California San Francisco and working at the school of nursing in Charlottesville, Virginia. After two years at the Washoe Medical Center in northern Nevada, Thelan became a staff public health nurse at Washoe County Health Department and eventually joined the Nevada Nurses Association in 1955.
