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Joyce J. Hoover, LCDR, USN, (Ret) is a native Texan from a small North Texas
town by the name of Saint Jo. She graduated from Harris School of Nursing, Fort
Worth, TX in 1947 and was commissioned an Ensign, Nurse Corps, USN October 1947.
During her 20 years of service, she served on land, sea and in the air. Her land
assignments were at U.S.Naval Hospitals: Houston, TX., Charleston, S.C., Mare
Island, CA., Corpus Christi, TX., Camp Pendleton, CA., Guam, Mariana Islands,
and Newport, R.I. Another land assignment was Navy Nurse Recruiting, Dallas, TX.
covering New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and half of Texas. Her sea duty
consisted of the Military Sea Transportation Service, North Pacific, Seattle,
WA. carrying troops and dependents to Japan and Alaska. Her air duty was as a
flight nurse with USAF 1453rd. Air Evacuation Sqd., stationed in Honolulu,
Hawaii bringing causalities of the Korean War from Japan back to the states.
Another flight nurse assignment was with VR-5, Naval Air Station, Moffett, CA.
air evacuating patients back to the states from Kodiac and Adak, Alaska.
She was an undergraduate student at the University of Minnesota, graduating with a B.S. in Nursing Education and a graduate student at the University of Washington, graduating with a Master of Nursing degree. She retired from the Navy May 1968. After retirement from the Navy, she was employed with the Texas State Health Department as a Nurse Consultant for the Medicare Program for three years living in Dallas, TX. September 1971 she moved to Austin and was appointed on the faculty of the University of Texas, School of Nursing. For the next fifteen years she was Director of the Continuing Education Program for registered nurses. She retired from the U.T. School of Nursing September 1987. She has served as USN, USMC, USCG, USNOAA Representative for the second time starting in 1999 to present and a member of the Austin Chapter of the Military Officers Association of America for over twenty-five years.
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