Owedia Searcy

Owedia M. “Tweety” Searcy was born on June 6, 1923 in Venus, Texas. After spending her childhood years in Johnson County, she graduated from Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, then attended Texas Christian University before graduating from St. Joseph Hospital’s School of Nursing in Fort Worth. She then was certified as a nurse anesthetist at Barnes-Jewish College Goldfarb School of Nursing in St. Louis. Tweedie was drawn to military service by her father’s service as a Marine in …