Wanda Bradshaw Risdon
July 14, 1926 - July 8, 2014
Wanda joined the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps in WWII and attended St. Johns School of Nursing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Wanda's first job was at the VA Hospital in Pass Christian, Mississippi. In 1949 Wanda moved to Denver, Colorado, and later met James Bradshaw at Denver University while attending a nurses meeting. They married in 1951.
Wanda and Jim had two children: Clarissa and Doyle; Wanda skillfully balanced being a wife, a loving mother, and a registered-nurse in Colorado, New Zealand, Idaho, Arkansas and California. James Bradshaw preceded her in death December 1980.
Wanda remarried an old family friend, Keith Risdon, in 1984. They lived in Palm Desert, and Wanda continued to work as a nurse, eventually retiring from Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage, California. Wanda and Keith Risdon moved to Cottonwood, Arizona, in 1991 they were both active in the community.
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