At the height of World War I - The War to End All Wars - Ludvena Bonifas, then 28, joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corp and left Ellis Island in New York for England and the battlefields of France
By William Kincaid
FORT RECOVERY - Over a century ago, an area woman enlisted as a nurse during WWI and made her way to Langres, France, where she tended wounded soldiers.
After serving in the war, Ludvena Bonifas returned from overseas to Fort Recovery, where she carved out a life for herself and her husband, Frank Hafner. [
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