Verna Vinson Hively was born on July 23, 1914. She served in the US Army as a Second Lieutenant during World War II. Verna 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.

She was married to Roger Vincent Hively on March 7, 1946 but divorced on October 26, 1968. Verna died on July 8, 1999 at the age of 84 and is now buried in the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County, Texas, USA with the rank of First Lieutenant on her headstone. Her name is commemorated on a monument located at Corregidor Island- Memorial Park, Philippines but name is inscribed as Verna Wenson.

Source of information: www.findagrave.com, www.ancestry.com