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The Billings Gazette, Billings, MT. 9/14/1988 Wednesday Page 16
Grace C. Eldering
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- Grace C. Eldering taught elementary scholl in Huntley Project, Big Horn, Rancher, and Hysham, teaching one year in Huntley High School.
She worked in the Michigan Health Department in 1928 and received a Ph.D. in bacteriology from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
She and Dr. Pearl Kendrick found the organism that causes whooping cough in infants and perfected the vaccine to prevent it.
She was admitted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983.
Miss Eldering, 87, died Aug. 31, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of natural causes.
Born in Rancher, Treasure County, Montana, a daughter of Herman and Mary Eldering, she attended grade school in Rancher and graduated from Hysham High School and the University of Montana in Missoula.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Henry (Jeanette) DeCock of Hysham; and three nieces, Mrs. Ole (Shirley) Redland of Hysham, Mrs. Kaui (Marion) Nahulu of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Mrs. Jean Agnew of Billings.
Memorial services were held in the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sept. 6.
Burial will be in Rancher Cemetery on Sept. 13.
Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge.
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Below information provided by Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher on 11/19/2012
Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances.
During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in the United States alone. Ninety-five percent of these deaths, moreover, were in children under the age of five years. Although the causative organism of this dread disease had been identified as early as 1906, no effective vaccine was ready and the available treatment of the day was ineffective.These facts spurred Dr. Kendrick to research the disease following her graduation form Johns Hopkins University in 1934. The work itself centered around Kendrick's native Grand Rapids, where she was serving as Chief of the Western Michigan Branch laboratory of the Michigan Department of Health. In this effort, Dr. Kendrick enlisted the support of Grace Eldering who had been working for the State Department of Health in Lansing. Together they devised a program of research, conducted lab experiments, did countless field tests, and ultimately succeeded in growing pertussis (the causative) in a medium of sheep's blood. They then began inoculating area children, carefully controlling the population for research purposes.
The rest is history.
In 1940 the State of Michigan began producing and distributing the vaccine, which virtually ended the incredible toll of whooping cough deaths. Kendrick and Eldering later successfully combined shots for diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus into the single DPT shot which is routinely given for prevention today.Following her retirement from the Michigan Department of Public Health in 1951, Dr. Kendrick joined the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology of The University of Michigan, where she taught and conducted basic research until her second retirement in 1960.
Both women were active in numerous professional organizations, including the American Public Health Association and the American Board of Bacteriologists. Each in turn served a term as president of the Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Pearl Kendrick died in Grand Rapids on October 8, 1980.
Grace Eldering, her longtime friend and colleague, continued to reside in that city where she engaged in volunteer service for the blind and the physically handicapped until her death in 1988.
Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher
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The Billings Gazette, Billings, MT. 9/14/1988 Wednesday Page 16
Grace C. Eldering
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- Grace C. Eldering taught elementary scholl in Huntley Project, Big Horn, Rancher, and Hysham, teaching one year in Huntley High School.
She worked in the Michigan Health Department in 1928 and received a Ph.D. in bacteriology from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
She and Dr. Pearl Kendrick found the organism that causes whooping cough in infants and perfected the vaccine to prevent it.
She was admitted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983.
Miss Eldering, 87, died Aug. 31, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of natural causes.
Born in Rancher, Treasure County, Montana, a daughter of Herman and Mary Eldering, she attended grade school in Rancher and graduated from Hysham High School and the University of Montana in Missoula.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Henry (Jeanette) DeCock of Hysham; and three nieces, Mrs. Ole (Shirley) Redland of Hysham, Mrs. Kaui (Marion) Nahulu of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Mrs. Jean Agnew of Billings.
Memorial services were held in the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sept. 6.
Burial will be in Rancher Cemetery on Sept. 13.
Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge.
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Below information provided by Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher on 11/19/2012
Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances.
During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in the United States alone. Ninety-five percent of these deaths, moreover, were in children under the age of five years. Although the causative organism of this dread disease had been identified as early as 1906, no effective vaccine was ready and the available treatment of the day was ineffective.These facts spurred Dr. Kendrick to research the disease following her graduation form Johns Hopkins University in 1934. The work itself centered around Kendrick's native Grand Rapids, where she was serving as Chief of the Western Michigan Branch laboratory of the Michigan Department of Health. In this effort, Dr. Kendrick enlisted the support of Grace Eldering who had been working for the State Department of Health in Lansing. Together they devised a program of research, conducted lab experiments, did countless field tests, and ultimately succeeded in growing pertussis (the causative) in a medium of sheep's blood. They then began inoculating area children, carefully controlling the population for research purposes.
The rest is history.
In 1940 the State of Michigan began producing and distributing the vaccine, which virtually ended the incredible toll of whooping cough deaths. Kendrick and Eldering later successfully combined shots for diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus into the single DPT shot which is routinely given for prevention today.Following her retirement from the Michigan Department of Public Health in 1951, Dr. Kendrick joined the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology of The University of Michigan, where she taught and conducted basic research until her second retirement in 1960.
Both women were active in numerous professional organizations, including the American Public Health Association and the American Board of Bacteriologists. Each in turn served a term as president of the Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Pearl Kendrick died in Grand Rapids on October 8, 1980.
Grace Eldering, her longtime friend and colleague, continued to reside in that city where she engaged in volunteer service for the blind and the physically handicapped until her death in 1988.
Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher
SOURCE: Death Certificate:
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The Billings Gazette, Billings, MT. 9/14/1988 Wednesday Page 16
Grace C. Eldering
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- Grace C. Eldering taught elementary scholl in Huntley Project, Big Horn, Rancher, and Hysham, teaching one year in Huntley High School.
She worked in the Michigan Health Department in 1928 and received a Ph.D. in bacteriology from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
She and Dr. Pearl Kendrick found the organism that causes whooping cough in infants and perfected the vaccine to prevent it.
She was admitted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983.
Miss Eldering, 87, died Aug. 31, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of natural causes.
Born in Rancher, Treasure County, Montana, a daughter of Herman and Mary Eldering, she attended grade school in Rancher and graduated from Hysham High School and the University of Montana in Missoula.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Henry (Jeanette) DeCock of Hysham; and three nieces, Mrs. Ole (Shirley) Redland of Hysham, Mrs. Kaui (Marion) Nahulu of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Mrs. Jean Agnew of Billings.
Memorial services were held in the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sept. 6.
Burial will be in Rancher Cemetery on Sept. 13.
Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge.
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Below information provided by Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher on 11/19/2012
Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances.
During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in the United States alone. Ninety-five percent of these deaths, moreover, were in children under the age of five years. Although the causative organism of this dread disease had been identified as early as 1906, no effective vaccine was ready and the available treatment of the day was ineffective.These facts spurred Dr. Kendrick to research the disease following her graduation form Johns Hopkins University in 1934. The work itself centered around Kendrick's native Grand Rapids, where she was serving as Chief of the Western Michigan Branch laboratory of the Michigan Department of Health. In this effort, Dr. Kendrick enlisted the support of Grace Eldering who had been working for the State Department of Health in Lansing. Together they devised a program of research, conducted lab experiments, did countless field tests, and ultimately succeeded in growing pertussis (the causative) in a medium of sheep's blood. They then began inoculating area children, carefully controlling the population for research purposes.
The rest is history.
In 1940 the State of Michigan began producing and distributing the vaccine, which virtually ended the incredible toll of whooping cough deaths. Kendrick and Eldering later successfully combined shots for diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus into the single DPT shot which is routinely given for prevention today.Following her retirement from the Michigan Department of Public Health in 1951, Dr. Kendrick joined the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology of The University of Michigan, where she taught and conducted basic research until her second retirement in 1960.
Both women were active in numerous professional organizations, including the American Public Health Association and the American Board of Bacteriologists. Each in turn served a term as president of the Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Pearl Kendrick died in Grand Rapids on October 8, 1980.
Grace Eldering, her longtime friend and colleague, continued to reside in that city where she engaged in volunteer service for the blind and the physically handicapped until her death in 1988.
Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher
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The Billings Gazette, Billings, MT. 9/14/1988 Wednesday Page 16
Grace C. Eldering
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. --- Grace C. Eldering taught elementary scholl in Huntley Project, Big Horn, Rancher, and Hysham, teaching one year in Huntley High School.
She worked in the Michigan Health Department in 1928 and received a Ph.D. in bacteriology from John Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.
She and Dr. Pearl Kendrick found the organism that causes whooping cough in infants and perfected the vaccine to prevent it.
She was admitted into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame in 1983.
Miss Eldering, 87, died Aug. 31, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, of natural causes.
Born in Rancher, Treasure County, Montana, a daughter of Herman and Mary Eldering, she attended grade school in Rancher and graduated from Hysham High School and the University of Montana in Missoula.
Survivors include a sister, Mrs. Henry (Jeanette) DeCock of Hysham; and three nieces, Mrs. Ole (Shirley) Redland of Hysham, Mrs. Kaui (Marion) Nahulu of Kamuela, Hawaii, and Mrs. Jean Agnew of Billings.
Memorial services were held in the Fountain Street Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Sept. 6.
Burial will be in Rancher Cemetery on Sept. 13.
Beals Mortuary of Forsyth is in charge.
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Below information provided by Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher on 11/19/2012
Drs. Pearl Kendrick (1890-1980) and Grace Eldering (1900-1988) are justly renowned for their development of the first successful vaccine for whooping cough, an accomplishment all the more significant and rare considering the circumstances.
During the 1930s, whooping cough claimed an average of 6000 lives a year in the United States alone. Ninety-five percent of these deaths, moreover, were in children under the age of five years. Although the causative organism of this dread disease had been identified as early as 1906, no effective vaccine was ready and the available treatment of the day was ineffective.These facts spurred Dr. Kendrick to research the disease following her graduation form Johns Hopkins University in 1934. The work itself centered around Kendrick's native Grand Rapids, where she was serving as Chief of the Western Michigan Branch laboratory of the Michigan Department of Health. In this effort, Dr. Kendrick enlisted the support of Grace Eldering who had been working for the State Department of Health in Lansing. Together they devised a program of research, conducted lab experiments, did countless field tests, and ultimately succeeded in growing pertussis (the causative) in a medium of sheep's blood. They then began inoculating area children, carefully controlling the population for research purposes.
The rest is history.
In 1940 the State of Michigan began producing and distributing the vaccine, which virtually ended the incredible toll of whooping cough deaths. Kendrick and Eldering later successfully combined shots for diphtheria, whooping cough, and tetanus into the single DPT shot which is routinely given for prevention today.Following her retirement from the Michigan Department of Public Health in 1951, Dr. Kendrick joined the faculty of the Department of Epidemiology of The University of Michigan, where she taught and conducted basic research until her second retirement in 1960.
Both women were active in numerous professional organizations, including the American Public Health Association and the American Board of Bacteriologists. Each in turn served a term as president of the Michigan Branch of the American Society for Microbiology.
Pearl Kendrick died in Grand Rapids on October 8, 1980.
Grace Eldering, her longtime friend and colleague, continued to reside in that city where she engaged in volunteer service for the blind and the physically handicapped until her death in 1988.
Provided by: - Daniel Pletcher
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