Elsie Okell

Rank:Nurse (Training School)
Died:02/06/1941Age:20
Incident Date:02/06/1941
Incident Address.Salford Royal Hospital
Died Address:Salford Royal Hospital
Grave Photo:Yes
Cemetery or Memorial:St. Matthew's Churchyard, Buckley
Town Memorial:Not Listed
Extra Information:
Born during the June quarter 1921 in the Hawarden
R.D. - ref: 11b/401, the daughter of Percy & Elsie
Okell (nee Toft)

Her father - Percy Okell, died during the same
quarter in 1921.

1939 National Registration - 37 Liverpool Road,
Buckley, Flintshire.   Elsie Okell - Widowed -
born: 5th January 1887 - occ: Dairy Farmer.  Nancy
I. Okell -  Single - born: 15th April 1914 - occ:
Unpaid Domestic Duties.   Eric Okell - Single -
born: 11th February 1917 - occ: Farmer.   Under
the 100 year rule, there are three redacted
entries for this address - presumably one of those
will be Elsie Jnr.

CWGC - Probationer Nurse. Daughter of Elsie Okell,
of Liverpool Road Farm, Buckley, Chester, and of
the late Percy Okell. Died at Salford Royal
Hospital.

Listed on the Salford Hospital Nurse's Memorial
under the heading "Preliminary Training School". 
One of 14 nurses killed when the Salford Hospital
was bombed.

Commemorated on the Buckley Town War Memorial
Hawkesbury.  The family gravestone in St. Matthews
Churchyard states that her father - Percy Okell
died on the 20th June 1921, aged: 36, her mother -
Elsie Okell died on the 28th May 1975, aged: 88.  
Elsie Jnr. would never have known her father who
died soon after her birth.   Nancy - listed above
in the 1939 census, died on the 24th December
2000, aged: 86 and Eric (also listed above) died
in 1983.

District:
Salford (City of Salford)
Memorials found on:
Salford Nurses
C.W.G.C.
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