12/15/2022
On Saturday, December 10th, 2022. The North Louisiana Nurse Honor Guard was privileged to participate in the services of Mrs. Cloie Edmunds Worsham.
1920-2022
Cloie was born in Mena, Arkansas, in 1920.
She and her siblings grew up in Arkansas as sharecroppers and tenant farmers.
The family unit consisted solely of Cloie and her siblings. Cloie was the youngest of the family.
When Cloie graduated from high school in 1938, she enrolled in a nurse’s training program at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Also, she did training in pediatrics and obstetrics at Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
During her training, she learned all phases of nursing, some of which are now considered “specialties.”
Cloie graduated nurse’s training as a Registered Nurse in 1943 from Tri-State School of Nursing and began working at Tri-State Hospital in Shreveport. During her employment, she became friends with another nurse, Mary Alys Worsham Wheeler. Mary Alys introduced Cloie to her brother, Jim Worsham and Cloie and Jim eventually married. Cloie and Jim were married from 1946 to 2002 when Jim passed away.
Cloie was cross-licensed in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma during her nursing career.
In 1943, she was appointed as an American Red Cross nurse during World War II.
She performed her duties as a surgical nurse, private duty nurse, nurse for a doctor’s office, hospital charge nurse, and Director of Nursing in a nursing home, and for some time, she worked as a nurse in a State mental health facility.
Cloie was always very proud of her career and had many stories she loved telling family and friends.
Cloie leaves behind two children, Judy and Jim, and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
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