Captain Alice Denney N-785158 US Army Nurse

Captain Alice Denney N-785158 US Army Nurse. She was born March 25, 1916, in Byron, Big Horn, Wyoming, the daughter of Edward and Julia Ann England Denney. She moved to Virginia, Bannock, Idaho in 1921. After graduating from Downey High School, she attended LDS Hospital Nursing School in Salt Lake City, graduating as a registered nurse, June 1939. She entered the Army Nurse Corps, as a 2nd Lt. on October 4, 1944 at the age of 28. he served at Fort Lewis General Hospital, McCaw General Hospital in Walla Washington and the 124th Station Hospital in in Linz Austria. She went over sees to the European African Middle Eastern Theater of operations on December 20, 1945 and returned to the US on May 1, 1947. She was discharge on July 4, 1947 at Downey Idaho. She was awarded the American Theater of operations Medal, the World War Two Victory Medal, and Army of Occupation Medal. 

In 1951 she earned a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and in 1955 a Masters of Arts in botany, from the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, In 1963 she earning a PhD in horticulture from, Utah State University, Logan, Utah, where she was then employed as a research assistant in agricultural education and animal husbandry, until retirement. Dr. Alice Denney, died on August 12, 2011 in Chubbuck, Idaho at the age of 95.