Remembering Corliss Henry

Age 95, Summit, N.J.
Passed away on April 14, 2020

She was one of the few black students at Hunter College High School in the 1940s, then an all-girls school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. She became, in 1957, the first black nurse on staff at Muhlenberg Hospital in Plainfield, N.J., where her husband was the first black person on the sales floor of any store downtown.

Mrs. Henry died on April 14 at Overlook Medical Center in Summit, N.J. She was 95. The cause was the novel coronavirus, her son Steve said.

She was born in Manhattan on Sept. 10, 1924, to Kenneth and Ethel Taylor, who were immigrants from Jamaica.

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