Mozelle Vinsant

She attended Silk Hope Elemantary and High School and Mars Hill Jr. College. She earned her nursing degree from North Carolina Baptist Hospital at Winston-Salem. She served as a Captain in the Army Nurse Corp during World War II working at Fort Bragg, Oliver General and Walter Reed and was stationed for a time in India. Upon return to the states she continued on in the Reserves where she attained the rank of Major. She served as the chief nurse at the Chalotte Regional American Red Cross Blood Center. In 1951 she moved to Albuquerque to work at the V.A. Hospital where she met and married Thurman Wallace Vinsant. They eventually moved to Roswell where she worked as a Public Health Nurse for the rest of her career serving as the supervisor for Lincoln, Eddy, Lee, Chaves and Otero counties during her tenure. She was responsible for helping establish the Health Department in Ruidoso. She was also instrumental in starting the Hospice Program that served her so well in her final months. She was preceded in deth by her husband, Thurman; her parents, Rufus and Carrie Brewer and two brothers, Harry Brewer and J. Warren Brewer. She is survived by sister, Carrie Campen of Beaufort, NC and a brother, Rufus Brewer Jr. of Siler City, NC; two daughters, Sue Vinsant of Ruidoso and Peggy Benson and her husband Rick of Albuquerque; numerous nieces, nephews, grandnieces, grandnephews, great grandnieces and great grandnephews.

Service

Celebration of Life

First Christian Church
1211 Hull Road
Ruidoso, NM  88346
Saturday, March 17, 2007
11:00 AM

Cemetery

Santa Fe National Cemetery
501 N. Guadalupe St.
Santa Fe, NM  87501

Memorial Contributions

Ruidoso Home Care Hospice Foundation
PO Box 2019
Ruidoso, NM  88355

American Heart Association
New Mexico Office
Albuquerque, NM  87199

Arthritis FoundationHav
Donation Department
Washington, DC  20077