Dorothy Griffin Utz

Dorothy Griffin Utz was recently designated a member of the Special Honor Roll of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps and received membership in the Women in Military Service for America Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mrs. Utz was recognized for her militarized service in the U.S. Public Health Service from 1943 to 1946.

Mrs. Utz is the widow of the late Dr. John P. "Jack" Utz, a physician she met at the Massachusetts Memorial Hospital in Boston in 1947 and married later that year. The couple had five children. During their career Dorothy and her husband served at medical facilities in Rochester, MN; Bethesda, MD; Paris, France; Richmond, VA; and Washington, D.C.