Miss Rose Ball was born May 4, 1877 in Reed Township, Seneca
County, Ohio. An article in the February 20, 1926 issue of the Sandusky Star Journal stated that Rose Ball was
a well-known nurse, having graduated from Providence Hospital School of
Nursing. U.S. Census Records list Rose’s occupation as a nurse in 1910, 1920
and 1930. She resided in Sandusky, Ohio during these years. In October of 1933,
Rose Ball was on the featured speakers at the banquet of the Nurses’ Alumnae
Association of Providence Hospital, which was held at the Hotel Rieger. After
having been in poor health for several years, Miss Rose Ball died on September
6, 1956 in Tiffin, Ohio. Though we do not know the exact year of Rose’s
graduation from nursing school, this is how Providence Hospital looked in 1910.
The facility formerly known as Providence Hospital is now the South Campus of
Firelands Regional Medical Center.
In an earlier posting about Providence Hospital, you noted that the hospital got its start in the house shown on the left of the photo, when in 1902 Laurence Cable purchased the house and donated it to the Catholic Diocese of Toledo to be used as a hospital. The house had formerly been the estate of C.C. Keech.
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