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Katie S. King (1923-2014), of Fayetteville, North Carolina, served in the Cadet Nurse Corps in the 1940s and, after more than twenty years in nursing, became a preacher in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in the 1980s. Katie Sawyer King was born on 9 October 1923 and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She was one of four children. King graduated from E.E. Smith High School in 1943 and then worked for a short time in the laundry at Fort Bragg. King entered the Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II and started training at Hampton Training School for Nurses in September 1944. She completed the program, which included a six-month program at St. Phillips's Nursing School in Richmond, Virginia, in September 1947. King returned to Fayetteville after the war, working [...] Read more
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