Kelly, Shirley C. (1928-

See Oral History Files, Fonds 18, Series 3, Subseries 8

Shirley Kelly took her nursing training at Soldiers’ Memorial Hospital in Orillia and did post-graduate training in operating room techniques and management at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.  She was a military nurse from 1951 to 1961 and an Operating Room supervisor from 1967 to 1973; she worked as an operating room staff nurse and supervisor at South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge, Ontario from 1973 until her retirement in 1988.  She describes the highlight of her career as ten years as a military nurse, with ten months in Japan and Korea.

Contents of Biographical File

  1. Biographical Information Profile
  2. Letter to Nina Rumen from Shirley Kelly, Christmas 1992.
  3. Four photographs