She was born in Oberlin, OH and she graduated from Nursing School in Cleveland, OH. Jane Kendeigh was a member of the first class at the Navy School of Air Evacuation in 1944.
She became the first Navy Flight Nurse to fly into IWO Jima and into Okinawa to fly air-evac patients back to Guam.
She married Lt. Robert Cheverton, USN, an air-evac Pilot, on 14 Feb 1946. They had 3 daughters. Jane continued to pursue her nursing career after leaving the Navy, and was well thought of in the San Diego Medical Community
Jane died from cancer in 1987 in San Diego.
