Thelma Belle Coulter^[1]

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• Name	Thelma Belle Coulter
  Born	29 Mar 1918	Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States
  Gender	Female
  Died	25 Jun 2010	Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States
  Obituary	30 Jun 2010	Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States
  	Great Falls Tribune
  	Thelma (Coulter) Fait, 92, formerly of Great Falls, an Army veteran and retired nurse anesthetist, died of natural causes Friday at Provena Villa Franciscan care center in Joliet, Ill. Her funeral is 10 a.m. Friday at Croxford Funeral Home, with burial in Manchester Cemetery. Thelma was born March 29, 1918 in Huntsville, Alabama. She graduated high school in 1937 in Huntsville, and attended nursing school from 1937-1940, graduating as an R.N. in 1940. She then attended Western Reserve University Hospital School of Anesthesia in Cleveland, Ohio, from 1947-1948, and became a certified nurse anesthetist. She entered the Army Nurse Corps from 1941-1947, and during her service was assigned to Camp Livingston, Louisiana; Barnes General Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and the Alaskan Theater of Military Service in the Aleutian Islands. She was then recalled to service for the Korean War in 1951. She served at Brooke Army Hospital in San Antonio, Texas, and also worked at Vanderbilt Hospital in Nashville, Tenn. At the time of her discharge, she held the rank of captain. Thelma married Dale Clark Fait on Dec. 3, 1950, in Huntsville. In 1962, she returned to work and was employed by the Columbus Hospital as a nurse anesthetist until retirement in 1980. Thelma was an active member of the First Nazarene Church, serving wherever she was needed in senior group and social activities of the church. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Award by the Church of the Nazarene in April 2001. In the fall of 2002, she moved to Crest Hill, Illinois, to be closer to her sons. She moved to Provena Villa Franciscan in 2007, when her declining health required full-time nursing care. She enjoyed sewing, helping others and reading, especially books on Montana history and by Montana authors. She is survived by her sons, Stephen Fait, of Chillicothe, Illinois, and James Fait, of Romeoville, Illinois; and two grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Dale, in 2000; and a grandson, Christopher, in 1986.
  Buried	Manchester Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States
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  Person ID	I924	Kull Family
  Last Modified	17 Apr 2016

  
  

  Father	James Daniel Coulter,   b. 4 May 1884, , , Tennessee, United States ,   d. 4 Oct 1918, , Madison, Alabama, United States
  Mother	Tommie Jane Commons,   b. 1 Sep 1882, , , Tennessee, United States ,   d. 29 Aug 1935, , Madison, Alabama, United States
  Family ID	F428	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Dale Clark Fait,   b. 10 Jun 1912,   d. 30 Sep 2000
  Children	1. Stephen Clark Fait   2. James Francis Fait
  Last Modified	2 Jul 2009
  Family ID	F2916	Group Sheet

  
  

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  		Born - 29 Mar 1918 - Huntsville, Madison, Alabama, United States Died - 25 Jun 2010 - Joliet, Will, Illinois, United States Obituary - Great Falls Tribune - 30 Jun 2010 - Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States Buried - - Manchester Cemetery, Great Falls, Cascade, Montana, United States  = Link to Google Maps   = Link to Google Earth
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  [S28] Personal correspondence: James T. Newell, Newell, James T. (Grant, Alabama), (email).