Polio Victim Flown Home-Miss Virginia Warner, 24, stricken with polio July 27 while working in San Angelo, Texas, hospital, is greeted by members of her family here yesterday after she was flown home. L to r: Miss Warner; the pilot, Charles Toth (on other side of plane); her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Warner; a brother, James, 15; and her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Gippner. All are of Kansas City. Stricken with polio when eight, she was able to discard braces four years later and, after high school, entered nurses training. She went to Abilene, Texas, during 1948 polio outbreak and to San Angelo when polio epidemic hit there this year.
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Polio Victim Flown Home-Miss Virginia Warner, 24, stricken with polio July 27 while working in San Angelo, Texas, hospital, is greeted by members of her family here yesterday after she was flown home. L to r: Miss Warner; the pilot, Charles Toth (on other side of plane); her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Warner; a brother, James, 15; and her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Gippner. All are of Kansas City. Stricken with polio when eight, she was able to discard braces four years later and, after high school, entered nurses training. She went to Abilene, Texas, during 1948 polio outbreak and to San Angelo when polio epidemic hit there this year.

Associated Press · [ca. September 1949]

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