Helen Dora Parris Miller
Passed away November 14, 2016
Mrs. Helen Dora Parris, 92, a parishioner at St. Matthias' Episcopal Church in Midlothian and a registered nurse who retired from McGuire Veteran's Administration Hospital, peacefully passed away on November 14, at Vinson Hall Retirement Community in McLean, Va. A proud member of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps, she was among the first group of women to enlist in 1943. She fulfilled the cadet nurse pledge to serve in essential nursing for the duration of the war through her work at Muhlenberg Hospital and at Camp Kilmer, the largest World War II processing center for U.S. and Allied troops leaving or returning from European duty.