Mae F. Keefer

Died August 31, 2012.

Mae F. Keefer, RN retired in 1988 after a 40-year career in nursing – more than 37 of those years at Evangelical Community Hospital. A graduate of Milton High School and the Williamsport Hospital School of Nursing, she completed her clinical training in the World War II Cadet Nurse Corps at Mount Alto Veterans Hospital in Washington, D.C. Following initial service as a general duty nurse in Williamsport, Mrs. Keefer began general duty nursing at Evangelical's original hospital at the Lewisburg United Methodist Homes. She was promoted to a 3-to-11 supervisor just two weeks after the opening of the new hospital in 1953. In 1970 she was named Director of Nursing.

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