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Show NOW 82, AIDED IN TWO WARS Oldest Member of Paris American L.eglon Post Auxiliary, Awarded Two Medals by Government. Mrs. Emily O. Helllg scraped lint for the wounded soldiers of the Ualon army uuiliig uie Civil war and for more than three yenrs during the World war worked In the surgical dressing room of the American Ambulance Am-bulance hospital at Neullly, France. She is the oldest member of the American Legion auxiliary to Paris post, ner son, sterling ster-ling Heilig, author and newspaper man, having served with the American army. During the Civil war Mrs. Helllg took part in the great sanitary fall at Philadelphia when ladles gave their sheets, tablecloths and napkins from which the lint was unravelled and re-rolled re-rolled Into tons of bandages. There were no gauze compresses In those days. These last, sixty years aftr her first war experience, she made at Neullly. For her work from 1915 to 1018 she was awarded two medals by the French government. She was eighty-two last April and In a recent lettor to Mrs. Gilbert Jones, president of the Paris post auxiliary, she said It was a Joy to have been associated as-sociated with "those noble American women." Mrs. Heilig was born In Wilkesbarre, Pa. She was a sister of Hear Admiral George F. Kuntz, U. S. X., retired, who died a few months ago. Admiral Kuntz was with Farragut In his attacks on the forts along the Mis Bissippl river, but returned to actlvt duty vlth 'ihe World war. |
