She was proud of her Irish heritage and her Montana roots.Ĭathy is survived by her three children, Dr. She was an avid bridge player and was a member of the same bridge club for over 50 years. They attended the Kentucky Derby on many occasions and enjoyed visiting other racetracks across the country. She enjoyed watching thoroughbred horse racing at Ellis Park, where and she and Dale maintained a box for many years. Vincent) Hospital Auxiliary, Vanderburgh County Medical Society Auxiliary, and the Evansville Kennel Club.Ĭathy was a passionate fan of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and the Mater Dei Wildcats. Other memberships and volunteer activities included Girl Scout leader, St. Cathy was a founding member of Corpus Christi Catholic Church and was a board member for the Diocese of Evansville Catholic Education Foundation. She was a docent at the Reitz Home Museum and a member of the Reitz Home Guild. This program featured five women Korean War Veterans from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force who each described a particular memory from their war experience.Ĭathy served as a volunteer nurse for the American Red Cross in Evansville for many years. to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Korean War.
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Dale and Cathy were also prominently featured in The Real M*A*S*H, a 2010 documentary by Toronto based filmmaker Min Sook Lee that examines how the real-life experiences of several doctors and nurses that served in MASH units in South Korea compared to what was portrayed in the Robert Altman film and the TV series.Ĭathy was also prominently featured in a nationally televised program held in 2012 at the Women in Military Service to America Memorial in Arlington, Va. Throughout the run of the TV series, Dale and Cathy were frequently consulted by the show's co-creator, Gene Reynolds, and many of their recollections and details they shared with him contributed to the show's authenticity and story lines of several episodes.
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The resulting book, published in 1968 under his pen name Richard Hooker as M*A*S*H: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, was soon followed by the 1970 Robert Altman film, M*A*S*H, and the TV series M*A*S*H, which ran from 1972 to 1983. He later cited this evening of reminiscing and storytelling with Dale and Cathy as providing the impetus for him to finish his manuscript. Hornberger had begun compiling a fictionalized collection of stories based on the experiences of his fellow doctors and nurses at the 8055 MASH unit. Unknown to Dale and Cathy at the time of their visit, Dr. Richard Hornberger, a thoracic surgeon who also served with them in South Korea at the 8055 MASH unit. The M*A*S*H phenomena originated about 10 years after the Korean War during a visit by Dale and Cathy to the Maine home of Dr.
A few months later, Dale and Cathy had made Evansville their new home, as Dale accepted a position at St. Dale and Cathy soon reconnected with a mutual friend living in Evansville who suggested that Dale consider establishing a practice at one of the hospitals there. Soon thereafter, they moved to Philadelphia where Dale had accepted a position teaching anesthesiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Cathy worked as a nurse at Presbyterian Hospital. Cathy soon returned to the states for an assignment at Walter Reed Hospital, while Dale remained in South Korea for another year. Dale Drake, who would later become her husband of 65 years. It was there she met a newly arrived anesthesiologist, Dr. From there, she was assigned to Japan, and then back to South Korea to the 8055th MASH unit. She was then assigned to the 8077th MASH unit in South Korea, which was later moved to North Korea. when in 1950, she was assigned to the 171st Evacuation Hospital in Korea. She was stationed at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C. She graduated from Shelby High School and the Columbus Hospital School of Nursing in Great Falls, MT.Ĭathy joined the Army Nursing Corps in 1949 and achieved the rank of First Lieutenant. Dale Drake, contributed to the background and provided the inspiration for the novel, movie, and long-running TV series M*A*S*H.Ĭathy was born on Januin Shelby, Montana, the youngest of three children of Christopher and Margaret (McCoy) McDonough.
Cathy was a former Army nurse whose experiences and service at a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital in South Korea, along with her late husband, Dr. Newburgh - Margaret Catherine "Cathy" McDonough Drake, 96, died on Jat her home in Primrose Retirement Community, Newburgh, Indiana. Margaret Catherine "Cathy" (McDonough) Drake
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