Olga Sadilek Stastny

(1878-1952) born at Wilber, Saline County, lived in Omaha. Physician, instructor in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine, honored for humanitarian efforts in France, Greece, and Czechoslovakia in the 1920s, first woman physician of Czech descent in Nebraska and perhaps the nation, honored in 1999 by designation of the Stastny Seminar Room in the Lied Science and Mathematics Building at Doane College in Crete, NE. Consult Esther P. Lovejoy, Certain Samaritans (Macmillan, 1927, 1933) and Women Doctors of the World (1957) and Dictionary of Medical Biography, Vol 2 (Greenwood Press, 1984) 713-714 and Nebraska History, Vol 68 (Spring 1987) 20-27 and Lincoln Journal Star, September 21, 1997, p. D-5.

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