Personal
She first met her future husband Henry Wald while she was serving as a research technician with the United States Army Signal Corps during World War II. Henry Wald was a participant in a study she was conducting, and shortly thereafter proposed that they marry, an offer that she declined.
In 1958, Henry Wald read a newspaper announcement that she had been appointed Dean of the Yale School of Nursing. Henry Wald was a widower with two young children, and after reconnecting the two married a year later.
She was awarded an honorary doctorate in 1996 from Yale University, Wald was introduced as "the mother of the American hospice movement".
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