WINONA, Minn. – Shirley M. (Baertsch) Duffy, age 96, of Winona, a registered nurse for 42 years, died at Sauer Health Care in Winona. Her last 20 years as a nurse were at Lutheran Hospital in La Crosse, which is now is Gundersen hospital. She grew up in in Eagle Valley near Fountain City and attended eight grades in a one-room schoolhouse and then high school in Fountain City. She attended Gustavus Adolphus College and Bethesda Lutheran School of Nursing in St. Paul. In the World War II she was in the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps. She was a member of the Sauer Home Auxiliary, the American Nurses Association, and Winona Ballroom Dance Club.
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