Helen Louise Gardner Rozmus was born on October 26, 1914. She was married to Henry Anthony Rozmus. Helen served in the US Army as a Second Lieutenant during World War II. She was one of the "Angels of Bataan and Corregidor” – the US Army and Navy Nurse Corps women who served in the Battle of the Philippines in 1941-42. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, 11 Navy nurses, 66 army nurses, and 1 nurse-anesthetist were captured and imprisoned in and around Manila. They continued to serve as nurses in various POW camps until they were finally liberated in February 1945. Helen died on September 7, 2004 at the age of 89 and is now buried in the Florida National Cemetery, Bushnell, Sumter County, Florida, USA with the rank of Captain on her headstone.