Mabel Isabel Wilcox

She served with the Red Cross in Europe during World War I, and was decorated by Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium and by the Mayor of Le Havre.

Sister Lucy Etta Wilcox Sloggett was a civic leader on Kauai, and also the World War I secretary of the Maui chapter of the American Red Cross.

[5] Her older brother Ralph Lyman Wilcox was a plantation overseer on Kauai;[6] brother Charles Henry Wilcox served in the Hawaii National Guard, managed sugar plantations, and had been a representative in the territorial legislature;[7] brother Gaylord Parke Wilcox was Chairman of the Board of Grove Farm, Ltd.[8] She received her early education at home from a private instructor, transferring later to Punahou School on Oahu, followed by three years at Oakland High School in California, completing her basic education at the college preparatory Dana Hall School in Massachusetts.

[12] Instituting the island's first public nursing services, she was influential in raising funds and getting the territorial legislature to allocate land to build the Samuel Mahelona Memorial Hospital at Kapaa.

They provided medical care and a safe haven for the children, often putting themselves in harm's way behind enemy lines to assist refugee women.