Collection: Wilma Rector Hanks Collection | ArchivesSpace Public Interface

Scope and Contents

This collection contains some genealogical information related to the Rector and Collins family from Nebraska. Other items include personal items belonging to Wilma (Rector) Hanks such as her senior class book of photos. Some items relate to acquaintances living in and around Norfolk, Nebraska as well as the Omaha, Nebraska area. One album is comprised of photographs and other items related to doctors and nurses at Lutheran Hospital in Norfolk, Nebraska, and Dr. Cowin’s Hospital in Marshall, Minnesota.

Dates

Creation: 1770s-1980s

Creator

Hanks, Wilma Rector, 1911-1990 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Wilma Rector was born in 1911 in Nebraska. She was the daughter of John Ensor Rector and Lavine Collins. Wilma married Orville Hanks on July 3, 1933. Wilma was a member of the Rebekah Lodge as well as a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). She died in 1990 and is buried in Omaha, Nebraska.