DOB/DOD: September 7, 1888 (Norwalk, CT) – July 24, 1965 (Cornwall, CT); 76 years old
MARITAL STATUS: Married Dr. James W. Gold Sr. [1866-1956] on June 3, 1925, in Norwalk, Connecticut.
CHILDREN: One son, James W. Jr. [1926-2015].
LOCAL ADDRESS: 3 Morgan Avenue, Norwalk
FAMILY: Born to Joseph A. [1859-1941] and Mary C. Miller Gray [1858-1931]. Four brothers, Horace M. [1886-1964], Joseph A. Jr. [1890-1924], Charles L. [1892-1968], and Donald A. [1898-1965]. Three sisters, Mary C. [1894-1991], Catherine H. Gray Overton [1896-1967], and Ruth E. Gray Owen [1901-1978].
SERVICE DATES: Enlisted in October 1918 and was discharged on April 25, 1919.
From a book titled “History of the World War Reconstruction Aides: Being an account of the activities and whereabouts of Physio Therapy and Occupational Therapy Aides who served in U.S. Army Hospitals in the United States and in France during the World War” (1933)
Testimony from Dorothea Davis (Mrs. Charles Dwight Curtiss), P.T., 10 West Virgilia Street, Chevy Chase, Maryland
“Entered Army Service May 15, 1918. Sailed for France on June 5, 1918, with the first Unit of Reconstruction Aides. We were attached to Base Hospital 114 Unit. There were 24 of us, all P. T.’s; Miss Louisa Lippett, Head Aide, Ethel L. Gray, Sarah Fletcher, Elizabeth Huntington, Minerva E. Crowell, Juanita Metherall, Myrna Howe, Juliet O. Bell, Frances Philo, Ruth M. Earle, Anne Larned, Rena Fise, Anna Voris, Jane Feinman, Harriet McDonald, Blanche Marvin, Magna Nashe, Florence Burrell, Mabel Penfield, Matilda Benjamin, Eunice Taylor, Bertha Boles, Dorothy Wellington, and Dorothea Davis.
We landed at St. Nazaire, France, on June 19, 1918, and were sent to Base Hospital 6 in Bordeaux. We stayed there for about a month. As I could speak French, I was put on the French ward and received my first Army experience with men old in the service. Many of them wore two and three-wound stripes. We were broken up into groups of four or six and sent to begin Physiotherapy in the different army hospitals.
On August 8, 1918, four of us went to Base Hospital 27 at Angers. Myrna Howe, Head Aide, Ethel Gray, Juliet Bell, and Dorothea Davis. We stayed there for the rest of our time in France.”
From The Hartford Courant July 25, 1965
Church Ends Devotion Hours This Morning
NORTH CANAAN (Special)— Forty hours of devotion will end this morning after the 11 o’clock mass at St. Joseph Church under the direction of Reverend Charles Hagearty, curate. Mrs. Ethel Gray Gold, Cornwall, widow of Dr. James Douglas Gold, died Saturday at Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington. She leaves one son, James W. Gold Jr. of Lumberville. Pennsylvania. Funeral services will be held Monday at 2 p.m. at North Cornwall Congregational Church with burial in North Cornwall Cemetery. There are no calling hours.
Buried in North Cornwall Cemetery, 26 Rattlesnake Road, West Cornwall, Connecticut; unknown plot number.
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