Ona Blanche Seng the youngest daughter of William and Ella Seng was born in Pleasant Hill, Ohio, October 10, 1898. She grew up getting her public school education in the Pleasant Hill Schools, graduating from the high school in the class of 1916. After her graduation she took a course in business in a college at Middletown, Ohio. After completing her work there she was employed in Dayton for some time. However, she from early girlhood had set her mind on being a nurse so as soon as she was old enough she entered the Battle Creek Sanitarium for training in her chosen profession. She graduated from that institution in 1928, and for the last six years she has been following the nursing profession. She remained in the hospital at Battle Creek for some time then went to Florida where she did private nursing. Going from there to the Chicago Municipal Hospital she remained there for about two years, and from there to a United States Army Hospital, the Fitsimmons General Hospital of Denver Colorado. Just about two months before her death she was sworn into the United States Army as a Regular Army Nurse. She met with a tragic death in an automobile accident on Sunday evening September 4. Ona was a girl of a fine Christian character and loved by all who knew her. She tried to get home as often as possible and the whole family looked with eagerness to these homecomings. While she was most intensely interested in her work and liked to talk about it, she was still young in spirit and had a lot of sympathy for children and loved them dearly and was loved by them. She was always thoughtful of her parents and remembered them quite frequently with presents. After she was received into the Army she was very happy that she had a permanent position assured her, and wrote to her mother, "If you ever wanted me to be happy, you now have your wish." She was a member of the Pleasant Hill Christian Church with which she was united when just a little girl always retaining her membership in that church. Ona was the youngest of a family of eight children, all of whom survive except her oldest brother who died in infancy, two brothers Robert Seng of Morristown, Ind., Ford of Pleasant Hill, and four sisters, Mrs. Bess Walker of Troy, Mrs. Emma Coppock of Cleveland, Mrs. Marguerite Hake of Piqua, and Mrs. Carrie Dunham of Covington. There are also a number of nieces and nephews who loved their aunt very much.
"Tis hard to part when friends are dear"
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