SCRANTON — The life of 2nd Lt. Carol Ann Drazba, R.N., will be honored by nurses of Scranton State General Hospital School of Nursing.

On her birthday, Thursday, from noon to 2 p.m., a historical display of the hospital from 1893 to 1978 will be unveiled at the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center’s first-floor lounge. There will be a wreath laying at her memorial at 2 p.m. at Mulberry Street and Franklin Avenue.

Lt. Drazba, a Dunmore native, was the first American female military casualty of the Vietnam War and a 1964 graduate of Scranton State General Hospital School of Nursing. Contact Kim Atkinson, R.N., 570-383-9552.

— KATHLEEN BOLUS