[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 192 (Tuesday, December 5, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E2288]
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                  IN HONOR OF GERALDINE BARBARA POSNER

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                          HON. JAMES P. MORAN

                              of virginia

                    in the house of representatives

                       Tuesday, December 5, 1995

  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to call my colleagues attention 
to the passing of a great American--Mrs. Geraldine Barbara Posner. Mrs. 
Posner served in the Air Force Nurse Corps and was among the first to 
land at Normandy.
  After returning from the war, she continued her education and served 
as a training supervisor for the D.C. Department of Human Resources. 
Mrs. Posner was a beloved constituent and a patriot. Please join with 
me in honoring her memory.

                        Geraldine Barbara Posner

       Geraldine Barbara Posner, 73, a former captain in the Air 
     Force Nurse Corps and a retired nurse in-service training 
     supervisor for the D.C. Department of Human Resources, died 
     of cancer Sept. 28 at the National Naval Medical Center in 
     Bethesda.
       Capt. Posner, who lived in Alexandria, entered the Army 
     Nurse Corps in 1944 and, after basic training, landed on 
     Normandy beaches shortly after D-Day, setting up combat field 
     hospitals. After World War II, she was assigned to various 
     military hospitals and received a commission in the Air Force 
     in 1948.
       A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., she received a diploma in 
     nursing from Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mass. After 
     leaving the military in 1952, she received a nursing degree 
     from Adelphi University in New York.
       She also took postgraduate nursing courses at Hofstra 
     College before settling in the Washington area in 1960. She 
     began a seven-year career with the D.C. Department of Human 
     Resources in 1970.
       Survivors include her husband, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. 
     Jack I. Posner of Alexandria; three daughters, Geraldine A. 
     Porter of Marshall, Va., Air Force Maj. Jacqueline B. Posner 
     of Alexandria and Ginnean C. Quisenberry of Enterprise, Ala.; 
     two sons, Air Force Lt. Col. John D. Posner of Tyndall Air 
     Force Base, Fla.; and Air Force Capt. Joseph R. Posner of 
     Robins Air Force Base, Ga.; three sisters, Carol Fleury of 
     Holyoke, Mass., Janice Devine of Ware, Mass., and Lorraine 
     Curley of Centerville, Mass.; and three grandchildren.

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