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CONNORS, JANE (1868-1949)

CONNORS, JANE, Sister St Joseph of the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph; nurse and nursing school head; b. Douglasfield, 10 May 1868, d/o Patrick Connors and Theresa Kane; sister of William J. Connors; entered religious life, 1887; d. Antigo, Wis., 11 Mar 1949.

Jane Connors was educated at St Michael's Academy in Chatham and was assigned to nursing duties soon after she entered the Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph, at age nineteen. At a later date she was one of several members of the hospital staff at Chatham who became RNs.

In 1916 Connors, as superintendent-designate of a nurses' training school which was being planned for Chatham, was sent for a year of study and observation at the Hotel Dieu Hospital in London, Ont. After her return in 1917, the nursing school opened with an enrollment of six. From this modest start the school produced graduates each year, from 1920 until it was discontinued in 1973, due to altered provincial training requirements. During its fifty-six-year existence, it gave society more than 500 nurses.

Connors was of a "quick, impulsive nature" and would "descend upon" any person who did not treat a patient properly. "Even the medical staff came in for its share of her ire when occasion demanded." Her dedication was universally acknowledged, however, and it was noted that she could be joyous and light-hearted when not under the pressure of responsibility. While she was superintendent of the nursing school she also acted as pharmacist for the hospital and the members of the religious community.

In 1934, Connors was one of three members of the order to be transferred to the Hotel Dieu Hospital at Antigo, Wisconsin, of which the Chatham Hospitallers were founders, and she spent the last fifteen years of her life there.

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[b/d] RHSJ data / Commercial World 17 Mar 1949; Leader 21 Jun 1994, 5 Jul 1994


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