Ursula Tibbels Auer

Ursula Tibbels Auer
Ursula Tibbels Auer, from a 1927 publication
Born(1883-04-23)April 23, 1883
Grant City, Missouri, U.S.
DiedMay 26, 1981(1981-05-26) (aged 98)
Elma, Washington, U.S.
OccupationsNurse, businesswoman

Ursula Tibbels Auer (April 23, 1883[1] – May 26, 1981) was an American nurse, social worker, clubwoman, and businesswoman. She was an American Red Cross nurse in Europe during World War I. In the 1920s she was co-founder and president of a baby food company based in Seattle.

Early life and education

Tibbels was born in Grant City, Missouri, the daughter of Thomas Charles Tibbels and Anna Rebecca Holliday Tibbels.[2][3] She earned a nursing degree at a hospital in Kansas, and later she studied food science at the University of Washington.

Career

Tibbels taught school in Missouri as a young woman,[4] and was secretary of the Washington State Nurses Association in the 1910s.[5][6] During World War I, she was a nurse in Europe,[7] including work in France, Belgium, Turkey, Greece, and Italy.[1] In 1919 she was the nurse in charge of infant welfare at Kavadar, holding baby care clinics and distributing donated supplies to war refugees.[8] She was awarded the Cross of Mercy for her work in Serbia.[9][10]

In the 1920s, Auer was co-founder (with her "girlhood friend" Lilla Cobb Norman[2] and Julia Fitzgerald) and president of Kiddie Kanned Foods, a woman-owned company packing and marketing tinned fruits and vegetables prepared for babies, children, and "invalids".[11][12] In the 1930s, she was a school nurse and social worker, and she directed the Junior Red Cross Clinic in Seattle.[13] During World War II, she taught first aid and home nursing classes, and demonstrated the use of gas masks.[14][15] In the 1950s, she was vice-president and director of the Seattle area chapter of the Women's Overseas Service League.[16][17]

Publications

  • "How the Violet's Wish Was Granted" (1921)[18]
  • "A Day in the Clinic" (1939)[13]

Personal life

Tibbels married a widowed German-born engineer, Carl Ludwig Auer, in 1920, soon after her return to the United States after the war.[19][20] They had two children, Thomas and Elizabeth. Her husband died in 1952, and she died in 1981, at the age of 98, in Elma, Washington.

References

  1. ^ a b Ursula Tibbels' 1920 application for a United States passport, via Ancestry.
  2. ^ a b "County Girls Operate Kiddie Food Plant (1)". The Times-Tribune. 1929-08-07. pp. 1, 2. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  3. ^ "Obituary". Sheridan Advance. 1921-07-21. p. 1. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Local News". Parnell Sentinel. 1904-12-01. p. 5. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "Back Matter". The American Journal of Nursing. 13 (10): 820. 1913. ISSN 0002-936X. Archived from the original on 2020-07-20. Retrieved 2025-10-29.
  6. ^ "Washington State Graduate Nurses Association". The Pacific Coast Journal of Nursing. 8 (11): 542. November 1912.
  7. ^ "War Nurse Returns". Seattle Union Record. 1920-04-29. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ History of American Red Cross nursing. Macmillan Company. 1922. p. 1124.
  9. ^ "Local Nurse is Given Unusual Honor". The Bellingham Herald. 1919-09-08. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  10. ^ "Serbia Honors Local Women". Seattle Union Record. 1919-09-03. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  11. ^ "'Babies Cry for Canned Foods'" Western Canner and Packer 19(3)(July 1927): 14.
  12. ^ "Kiddie Kanned Foods (advertisement)". The Register-Guard. 1927-06-11. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ a b Auer, Ursula T. (1939). "A Day in the Clinic". Seattle Grade Teacher. 21: 14.
  14. ^ "Wickersham". The Bellingham Herald. 1942-08-02. p. 11. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  15. ^ "Wickersham". The Bellingham Herald. 1942-07-12. p. 4. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  16. ^ "Overseas League to Hold Meeting". The Oregon Daily Journal. 1956-06-12. p. 48. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  17. ^ "Overseas Unit Sets Meeting". The News Tribune. 1958-05-11. p. 54. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  18. ^ Auer, Ursula Tibbels (June 1921). "How the Violet's Wish was Granted". Rosicrucian Fellowship Magazine: Rays from the Rose Cross. 13 (2): 72.
  19. ^ "Marriages". The Bellingham Herald. 1920-05-10. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ "Nurse is Home Again; Miss Ursula Tibbles Returns from Overseas Trip". The Bellingham Herald. 1920-04-20. p. 6. Retrieved 2025-10-29 – via Newspapers.com.
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