Gussie M. Jones
Died: March 7, 2004
Rank: Captain
Unit: 31st Combat Support Hospital
Branch: U.S. Army
Captain Gussie M. Jones, an Army Nurse Corps officer assigned to the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, died of cardiac arrest on March 7, 2004, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Even though Jones was exhausted from working a full shift, she immediately answered the call when an urgent request came in for assistance from another unit. After funeral services on March 15, 2004, at Saint Mark Baptist Church, Little Rock, Arkansas, Jones was buried in the Arkansas State Veterans Cemetery.
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