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Henrietta Marguerite Adams Loughran was born in Seattle, Washington on July 12, 1898. She graduated from Kirkland High School in Kirkland, Washington in 1915 and then attended the Seattle General Hospital School of Nursing. After receiving a nursing certificate in 1920, she worked as a private duty nurse and then as an obstetrical supervisor at Seattle General Hospital. In 1926, she received her BSN from the University of Washington and served as a nursing instructor at Everett General Hospital in Everett, Washington from 1926 to 1928. From 1928 to 1931, she taught nursing at the University of Washington, then in 1931 became director of nursing education at the newly established Harborview Hospital Division of the University of Washington School of Nursing. She received her MSN from the University of Washington in 1934. In 1941, she moved to Colorado to be the acting director of the University of Colorado School of Nursing, then became the dean in 1943 and served in that capacity for 16 years. She also taught nursing at CU for 23 years until her retirement in 1965. In 1943, she married Vernon F. Loughran. After her husband’s death in 1978, she moved back to Redmond, Washington and died there on October 2, 1980 at the age of 82.