From Hogs to Heaven

Laurel Rae Dickinson started her life during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm. The third daughter of a farmer who needed boys she was expected to command mules, drive tractors, milk the cows, and keep the old sow in line. While she did her best, in the end she didn't prove as "manly" as her two older sisters and may have been a disappointment to her father. This changed after her "accidental" entry into the nursing profession. She started out as assistant to a neurosurgeon and eventually fou