Marion G. Crandell
1872-1918
Marion Crandell was the first American woman to die in the war zone during World War I. She was born in Cedar Rapids, but spent several years in France, where she attended the Sorbonne University. In 1916 she came to Davenport as a teacher at St. Katherine’s School when the war broke out, she offered her services to the YMCA division which aided French soldiers, and arrived in Paris in February 1918. She was killed on March 27 when a German artillery shell struck the building where was lodging. She was buried in a French military cemetery.
Marker can be reached from Eastern Avenue 0.3 miles west of East Rusholme Street, on the left when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
