Metro Atlanta community celebrates 100th birthday of Tuskegee Airmen nurse
A recent gathering in Marietta celebrated the 100th birthday of a Tuskegee Airmen nurse.
The socially distanced gathering celebrated the life and work of Second Lt. Irma Cameron Dryden.
According to reporting from 11Alive, Dryden made a grand entrance and was greeted by numerous well wishers.
Dryden was a nurse in the military in 1943. Her then-husband was one of the Tuskegee airmen.
"She has had a monumental impact on people and not even know that she did," a spokesperson for the National Association of Black Military Women Atlanta Chapter told 11Alive.
Dryden graduated from Harlem Hospital School of Nursing and left the service as a second lieutenant in 1944.
Those who gathered to celebrate her birthday brought signs, flowers, balloons and played music from the lawn of her Marietta home.
According to a People article, Dryden is the only living Tuskegee Airmen nurse.
Tuskegee Airmen Nurse Irma Cameron Dryden celebrates her 100th birthday on Thursday, May 28, 2020. She may be the last remaining nurse of those who were stationed at Tuskegee Army Airfield station hospital in the 1940's when the pilot cadets were in training during World War II. pic.twitter.com/7QlOv2Rx9t
— Tuskegee Army Nurses (@TuskegeeNurses) May 26, 2020
