Journey To A War: First Recollections
Born in 1892, Ethel Frank came of age during a remarkable period of American history, when hardship was commonplace, opportunity demanded courage, and a family could leave everything familiar behind in search of a better life.
Ethel's childhood took her from Ohio to the open plains of North Dakota, where her family established a homestead and confronted prairie fires, devastating storms, brutal winters, isolation, illness, loss, and the everyday challenges of pioneer life. As a girl, she learned responsibility early. After losing her father at age twelve, Ethel helped care for her younger siblings and discovered a calling that would eventually lead her into nursing.
Her journey would take her far beyond the prairie. She pursued nurses training, became a registered nurse, established her own Montana homestead, and answered the call to serve as an Army Reserve nurse during World War I. Overseas, she cared for desperately ill and wounded soldiers amid the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic and experienced history not from a distance, but as a participant in it.
Yet this is more than a record of historical events. Told through Ethel's own recollections and preserved by her grandson Wyatt, it is an intimate portrait of family, sacrifice, humor, love, determination, and an America undergoing extraordinary change.
She was curious, caring, playful, loving, strong, and always ready to help someone in need.
That was my Grandmother.
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