Show NOW 82 AIDED IN TWO WARS oldest member of parl paris american legion post auxiliary awarded two medals by government mrs emily C scraped lint for or the wounded soldiers of the ution army during the civil war and for or more than three years during the world war worked in the surgical dressing room of the american ambulance hospital at neuilly Neu llly france she la Is the oldest member of the american legion auxiliary to carls furls post li r son ster tida li bellig ellig author find and newspaper man having served with the american army during the civil war mrs took part in the great sanitary fall at philadelphia when ladles ladies gave theli their sheets tablecloths and napkins from which the lint was unravelled find and re rolled into tons ot of bandages there were no gauze compresses in those days these last sixty years after her first war experience slie she mode made at neuilly for her work from 1915 to 1018 she was awarded two medals by the french government she was eighty two tivo last april and in a recent letter to mrs gilbert jones president of the parts paris post auxiliary she said it was a joy to have been associated soc socia ted with those noble american women mrs was horn la in Wilkes barre pa she was a sister of rear admiral george F r kuntz U S N retired who died a few months ago admiral kuntz was with farragut in his attacks on the forts along the mississippi sis sippi river but returned to active buty with the world war |