The family moved to Bathurst when she was 10 years old. She graduated from the Bathurst High School in 1935, worked a few years and in 1939 enrolled at the Moncton School of Nursing.

Upon graduation from the Moncton School of Nursing in 1942, she enlisted in the Royal Canadian Medical Corps and was sent overseas to England in 1943. After the Normandy landing, she was sent to France, Belgium and eventually Germany, returnin

g to New Brunswick in August 1946. She worked short stints in Sussex and Saint John before returning home to Bathurst to work at the Sir James Dunn Hospital. She married Ernest Pentland in June 10, 1948 and had her only child, Ronald, in March 194

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In February 1953, Nurse Pentland was instrumental in organizing the safe evacuation of all the patients from the Sir James Dunn Hospital as it burned. For that she was recognized by the Town of Bathurst for her calm bravery.

She then took up supervisory duties at the Valley Lourdes Sanatorium in Bathurst for TB patients. Later her unit was moved to the Chaleur Regional Hospital in Bathurst at which she worked until her retirement in 1978. After her husband passed awa

y in 1984, she continued to live in the house on Riverside Drive that they had built in 1953 and only recently moved to the Robert L. Knowles Veterans Nursing Home in February 2011. She had been a member of the Herman J. Good, V.C. Br. 18 of th

e Royal Canadian Legion, Bathurst for many years.