Mabel Stevens Fithian was born on February 28, 1913. She was the daughter of George Lewis Stevens and Anna M. Hail Stevens. Mabel 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. Mabel died on June 22, 1995 at the age of 82 and is now buried in the Riverside National Cemetery, Riverside, Riverside County, California, USA.