Dyck, Katherine (d. 1956)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1956 Aug 9 p. 1

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Two Nurses Drown in Korea

ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIVES OF KATHERINE DYCK AND BERTHA KORNELSON

Akron, Pa. (MCC) — Two nurses serving with Mennonite Central Committee in Korea accidentally drowned August 2, according to a cablegram received at Akron. Further details will be reported when they are available.

The nurses are Katherine Dyck of Rosthern, Sask., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob C. Dyck, and Bertha Kornelson of Abbotsford, B. C., daughter of Mrs. Bertha Kornelson. They served in two different hospitals for children in Pusan, Korea.

Miss Dyck began service in Korea in October 1953. Prior to that she was a nurse at Brook Lane Farm at Hagerstown, Md. She studied a year at Canadian Mennonite Bible College at Winnipeg, Man., and had previous nursing experience at Quill Lake (Sask.) Union Hospital and Saskatoon (Sask.) City Hospital. She was a member of the General Conference Mennonite Church at Rosthern.

Miss Kornelson began service with MCC last September. She studied two years at Mennonite Brethren Bible College at Winnipeg. Her nurses training was at Vancouver (B. C.) General Hospital. She took post-graduate study in surgery, and had six years of nursing experience at Abbotsford General Hospital and at Vancouver General Hospital. She was a member of South Poplar Mennonite Brethren Church at Abbotsford.

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