| Gertrude has been a member of Joseph P. Chaisson Post 41 for eighteen years. In the year 2007 she was selected along with her husband Lloyd G. Johnston as the Milo Memorial Day Parade Marshals.
Gertrude was born in Bangor, Maine and at age 21 she joined the U.S. Navy Waves in the medical field. Basic training was at WTC Hunter College in the Bronx, New York City. Gertrude worked at several hospitals in the State Of New York and remembers that most service members arrived in the middle of the night from Europe and the injuries were very serious.
Gertrude served from March 9th, 1944 to August 22, 1946, and received The American Campaign World War II Victory Ribbon.
Upon release she returned to Milo, where she met and married Lloyd G. Johnston. | |
- GERTRUDE L. (GILBERT) JOHNSTON
