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Chase County Kansas Obituaries
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McLinden, Lucy Catherine WOMAN'S AUXILIARY UNIT BEARS AN HEROIC NAME
Miss Lucy McLinden Died While Nursing Stricken Soldiers at Lawrence.
Miss Lucy Catherine McLinden, for whom the post of the Woman's Auxiliary to the American Legion of this city was named, was born and raised in Chase county. She spent all of her life at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McLinden, in the northwest part of the county, with the exception of the years in Marion and Chase county high schools and a year spent in the British Isles visiting places of interest in Ireland, England and Scotland. She was there when the war started over there.
She returned and was just commencing her second year in the state university in the fall of 1918, when the war extended to this country and she volunteered her services in nursing the stricken soldiers in the Student Army Training Corps at Lawrence.
In this heroic work she offered her strength and energy until finally attacked by the same disease which she had so successfully combated in others and fell a victim of it, thus becoming one of that great number of splendid Americans who have made the ultimate sacrifice for the liberties of our own country and those mankind.
Miss McLinden during her first year at the university was librarian in the physiology library and was well liked by all with whom she came in contact. The nurses and doctors at the hospital and barracks infirmary commended her services very highly as a nurse, saying that she was a capable and efficient worker at all times and that her life was given in absolute service. Her portrait hangs in the memorial gallery in Fraser Hall at the University.
The Lucy McLinden Post of the Women's Auxiliary to the American Legion was organized here soon after the war was over and have done much good for the community and during its two years of existance has always been a fitting tribute to Miss McLinden's name. The organization is founded on the principal of "service and are always watching for an opportunity to serve. They are just now preparing to install a ladies restroom in this city and to maintain it for the convenience of visitors.
The Auxiliary is composed of the mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters of soldiers, but at the present time does not include but a small share of the women of the county who are eligible and it is the ambition of the members to bring many more women into the organization during the next few days--to have the Women's Auxiliary include at least one representative for every ex-service man in the county.
"New members may ask for reason why every eligible woman should belong to the unit." a member stated, Here are some; "To stand behind her soldier' just as he did in the days of strife. To be ready to assist in putting over the Kansas Adjusted Compensation act at the election in 1922. That she, as an individual, may be identified with the largest active organization of women in the world, an organization founded on the sanest of womenly principles--SERVICE. That she as an individual may be a part of that local unit which builds for the best in its community and 100 per cent Americanism."
Lucy McLinden died in 1918.
Chase County Leader News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Sep 20, 1921.
by Lorna Marvin
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