World War II Honoree

Stanley Francis Nabity

Branch of Service

U.S. Navy

Hometown

Chapman, Nebraska

Honored By

Pearl Thomas

He enlisted in the U.S. Navy Reserve and then enrolled at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln on a full academic scholarship but attended only one semester before the Navy sent him to Villanova University, just outside Philadelphia, for pre-med studies, which he completed in just two years. After working as a hospital corpsman at Philadelphia Naval Hospital for three months, he entered Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in October 1945. He was released from active duty in January 1946.