Sadie Green – the Person
1885-1986
Sadie Green was a
pioneer woman in many ways. When other
women her age were getting married, having children and keeping house, Sadie
decided to pursue a career in nursing.
When World War I broke out, Sadie Green was among the nurses who
reported for duty as a Reserve Army Nurse and nursed soldiers back to health in
England
and France .
After the war, Sadie became Medina County ’s
third health nurse and she served in that capacity until 1935. She is often mistakenly cited as Medina's First Health nurse, but there were two before her: Miss Constance Hanna, also a World War I nurse, served from May of 1920 through June of 1922, and Miss Musse served from December of 1922 until Sadie Green took over in November of 1924. As the County Health Nurse, Sadie checked the
school children for tonsillitis, bad teeth and lice. She would drive ill children home from school
and even found foster homes for children that needed them. She would visit area jails and nurse inmates.
For all of her
pioneering accomplishments, Sadie was not a woman’s libber. She once said, “I remember when women got the
vote. They were going to clean up
politics and all they did was dirty up themselves.”
After leaving the
Medina County Health Department, Sadie worked at hospitals in
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