First Lieutenant Miriam Katharine Stitt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Stitt, of Spruce Hill township, arrived home Friday evening, November 17th [1945] on a 45-day furlough, after 26 months service in the European Theatre of operations.
She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps, January 9, 1941, at Philadelphia. Served 2 1/2 years at the Station Hospital, Fort Benning, Georgia. In the spring of 1943, she was assigned to a Hospital Train Unit. Shortly after D-day, their unit was sent to France.
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MIFFLINTOWN - Katharine S. "Kate" Sausser, 90, of Brookline Manor, RR1, Mifflintown and formerly of Camp Hill, died at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, at the manor.
Born on March 22, 1918, in Spruce Hill, she was the daughter of the late Mark L. and Mabel (Esh) Stitt. Her husband, Dr. Eugene W. Sausser, preceded her in death on Nov. 16, 1994.
Surviving are: her step-children, Dr. Gene Sausser, of Charleston, S.C., Susan Davis Orloff, of Staten Island, N.Y., David Sausser and Thomas Sausser, both of Baltimore, Md.; and several nieces and nephews.
Three sisters, Maxine Silver, Mildred Ruhl and Madelon Book, preceded her in death, making her the last of her immediate family.
She was a 1936 graduate of Port Royal High School and a 1939 graduate of the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing, Philadelphia.
She retired in 1982 from the Mifflin-Juniata Community Nursing Service, where she served as its first director.
Mrs. Sausser was a WWII U.S. Army veteran having attained the rank of 1st Lieutenant serving in the European Theater with the U.S. Army Nurse Corp. on the 25th Army Hospital Train.
Her memberships included the Market Square Presbyterian Church, Harrisburg, Spruce Hill Grange No. 772, PA State Grange, National Grange, Crawford-Brubaker VFW Post No. 5863 and the American Legion Post No. 298, both of Mifflintown, also the Pioneers of the Mifflin-Juniata United Way and the Red Cross Gray Ladies.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008, at the Westminster United Presbyterian Church, corner of Third and Lemon Streets, Mifflintown, with the Rev. Martha Pardee Carlson, the Rev. James D. Brown and the Rev. Richard C. Gordon officiating. Interment will follow in the Lower Tuscarora Presbyterian Cemetery, Academia, where the Juniata County Veterans Council will accord full military burial honors.
There will be no viewing.
For those who desire, memorial contributions in Mrs. Sausser's memory may be made to: The Juniata County Food Pantry, 17 East Industrial Park Road, Mifflintown, PA, 17059.
Arrangements have been entrusted to the Brown Funeral Homes, Inc., 100 Bridge St., Mifflintown.
