Jane Monteith, Nurse & Her Husbands

ANDREW MONTEITH > WILLIAM BOYD MONTEITH > DR. GEORGE MONTEITH m Lucy I Hubbard > JANE ELIZABETH MONTEITH CAMPBELL FRYKMAN HENNING

Canadians at Sicily. Medical evacuations, 1943

I told you recently a little bit about Dr. George Monteith and his family here. Jane was the eldest daughter of Lucy and George. Jane was born 17 Aug 1915 in Hazleton, Emmons, North Dakota, where her father had a surgical medical practice. She attended college at the University of North Dakota and was a member of the Pi Chapter of Alpha Phi sorority. She completed Nursing School in Minneapolis and started her nursing career there.

She met young Dr. Colin Alexander Campbell, a Canadian physician, most likely during his post-graduate year at the University of Minnesota hospital in about 1940. Colin was born 27 Sep 1915 in Ontario, Canada. He was the son of  Dr. Archibald Campbell and Helen Richmond Lindsay. Colin attended Wellington Street School and the Collegiate Institute. He was also a rugby payer. His brother Archie and he were "backfield stars" on the senior football team.

At a young 15 years of age, Colin entered Queen's University to study medicine. He was the youngest

Jane as a Young Woman

graduate of the Class of 1938 and graduated near the top of his class. One summer, he spent at Memorial Hospital in St Thomas, Elgin, Ontario as an intern, and then completed his dual year at Kingston General Hospital.  In 1938-39, he interned at Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario and then did a year post-grad at the University Hospital in Minneapolis.

Prior to his marriage, he joined the Royal Canadian Medical Corps. Capt Campbell and Jane got married in Toronto, Canada on Feb 20, 1941.

Capt Campbell served with the Carleton and York Regiment, which was involved in Operation Husky, taking Sicily in mid-1943. While there, he contracted an illness that would have him sent back to Canada. Then Major Campbell died of complications of the illness on 15 Mar 1947. It was considered a service-connected death. He left his widow, Jane and two young sons.

Dr. Howard M. Frykman

Jane went back to nursing and on Dec 29, 1950, she married Dr. Howard Martin Frykman, a successful Minneapolis doctor who also adopted her two sons. Born in North Dakota, 24 Feb 1917, he did both his undergrad and medical training at the University of Minnesota. He took a master's in neuroanatomy and got his medical degree in 1943 after serving two years in the Army. He was injured at Guadalcanal.  He then did his surgical fellowship and post-grad training in colon and rectal surgery. He was described as a "meticulous surgeon" who made great contributions to his field. He was Clinical Surgery professor in the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgeons. He had just returned from a trip to England when he discovered he suffered from hypemephroma and passed away on 02 Oct 1969. In 1970, the Howard M. Frykman, MD Memorial Lecture was established.

Jane then married Herbert Karl Henning in 1982. He retired from 3M. He died 07 Feb 2003.

Jane volunteered at the Abbott Northwestern Hospital for 50 years. Jane died on 30 Dec 2010 at the age of 95.