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  Ellen V. Marrello
Ellen V. Marrello was born in New York in 1914, the daughter of Amelia and Domenico Marrello . She was the youngest of 10 siblings and a graduate of Rye High School. In Rye her family lived at 11 New Street and were members of the Church of the Resurrection.
Ellen was a graduate of the United Hospital School of Nursing in Port Chester, NY. She was a nurse at United Hospital and Fordham Hospital in New York City.
 Ellen enlisted in 1940 and served as an officer in the U.S. Army Nurses Corp. during World War II. At the start of the war in December 1941, there were fewer than 1,000 nurses in the Army Nurse Corps and 700 in the Navy Nurse Corps.
With over 8 million soldiers, sailors, and airmen, the needs were more than double those of World War I. Hundreds of new military hospitals were constructed for the expected flow of casualties. By the end of the war, the Army and Army Air Forces (AAF) had 54,000 nurses, and the Navy had 11,000—all women.
 Army Nurse Ellen V. Marrello Promoted to Rank of Lieutenant
Kelly Field, Texas. The promotion of army nurse Ellen V. Marrello, of 11New Street. , Rye, to the Rank of 1st Lieut. , was announced this week by Col. Paul S. Blair, Kelly Field base commander. Lieut. Marrello is the chief nurse in the surgical ward at the Kelly Field Station Hospital. She has been stationed here at the San Antonio Air Service Command, since July, 1943 and has been in the service since 1940. She previously served at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C. In civilian life Lieut. Marrello did nursing at the Fordham Hospital in New York City and at the United Hospital in Port Chester.
Friday, June 2, 1944 THE RYE CHRONICLE PAGE FIVE
 Ellen married Major Lester M. Peters, Army Air Forces May 25, 1945. The ceremony was performed at Patterson Field, Ohio, where the bride was stationed.
In her four years of service, Ellen had served as a nurse at Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D. C., Kelly Field Station Hospital, TX and Patterson Field, Ohio.
 After her discharge from the Army she would move to Coolin, Idaho where she made her home for 35 years.
Ellen Marrello Peters a former resident of Rye died Wednesday December 7, 1977 in Coolin, ID
At the time of her death, she was survived by three sisters Sister Marie Bonaventure of Newburgh NY Mrs. Jeanette Agostlno of Port Chester and Miss Mary Marrello of Rye three brothers Frank Marrello of Greenwich Victor Caputo of Rye and Florenxo Caputo of Port Chester and several nieces and nephews.
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