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Show i o ' .- V ,,' ;v : I INSTANCE B. THORNE ormer resident lies in Jmaha, Neb. v -stance B. Thorne, longtime ,1 Vernal area and former fe at the Uintah County ' ..i died April 14, 1980 in Omaha, i, Thorne was born in Chicago, July 22, 1892, and was the eldest (yerof'john B. and Fammie M. ;i. 'owing her graduation from ) , school in Chicago, she served in S Army Nursing Corps during njar I. While stationed at Camp a, South Carolina, Mrs, Thorne erbusband, Robert C. Thorne of a, a ,r her discharge from the Army, 4 Thorne worked for the Visiting X Association, specializing in the '1 iBient and rehabilitation of polio l' In the early years of her if nge, Mrs. Thorne traveled ex-, ex-, ively from her home in Chicago to ' cunt and New York state, training ; sts of polio patients in the methods t techniques of rehabilitation. a, Mr.iand Mrs. Thorne moved I te Vernal area from Chicago, tag in Willow Creek until 1936 at J time they moved to Jensen re they made their home until Mr. Be died in 1960. After his death, Thome moved to Vernal. For the tar years Mrs. Thorne resided in k, Neb, lile residing in the then remote i Creek area, Mrs. Thorne was lently called upon to practice her ing skills in treating and caring for idneighbors at isolated ranches in irea. II 'SB Mrs. Thorne returned to on a full time basis, working at IMah County Hospital until her tment in 1959. s Thorne is survived by a son, ol Omaha, Neb.; three grand-ken, grand-ken, Anne Throne of Manteo, i Carolina, Jim and David Thorne -taha; and a brother and sister, rt M. Bryson and Mrs. H.H. m of Los Angeles, Calif. |