Class Notes 1939-1949 - School of NursingSchool of Nursing

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1939

Mimi Boyd, Peabody College School of Nursing alumna, of Shreveport, Louisiana, celebrated her 102^nd birthday in December 2015.
1940

Esther Briggs Mason, BSN’40, of North Wagga Wagga, Australia, passed away in January 2016. She was 101. Her 100^th birthday was acknowledged in Vanderbilt Nurse Magazine .
Virginia Levering Nelson, BSN’40, of Saint Louis, passed away January 30, 2018. She was 101.
1941

Charlotte Wilson Butler, BSN’41, of Hooker, Oklahoma, passed away March 2, 2015.
Mary Hayes, BSN’41, of Atlanta, passed away June 7, 2021. She was 102.
1942

Jean Colville Slayden, BSN’42, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away January 20, 2016.
1943

Mary Jane Fuller Albert, BSN’43, of Paducah, Kentucky, passed away April 25, 2023. She was 101 and was featured in Vanderbilt Magazine in 2024.
Jennie Pilato Bianconi, N’43, of Maryville, Tennessee, passed away August 17, 2019. She was 99.
Lucy Savery Klein, BSN’43, of Olympia Fields, Illinois, passed away April 24, 2021. She was 99.
1944

Bettie White Cleino, BSN’44, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, passed away August 9, 2021.
Maxine Dorris, N’44, of Austin, Texas, passed away March 24, 2023. She was 99.
Rosa Paxton Payne, N’44, of Hopkinsville, Kentucky, passed away December 30, 2017.
1945

Martha Tucker Austin, BSN’45, of Charlotte, North Carolina, passed away July 9, 2021.
Lucy Goedert Parks, BSN’45, of Jacksonville, Florida, passed away December 18, 2022. She was 100.
Charlotte Conaway Scott, BSN’45, of Mobile, Alabama, passed away October 16, 2016.
Sarah Gardner Tillman, BSN’45, of Natchez, Mississippi, passed away November 7, 2015.
Margaret Wahl Vogel, BSN’45, of Pleasant Hill, Tennessee, passed away October 20, 2023. She was 100.
1946

Frances Jones Haase, BSN’46, of Indian Harbour Beach, Florida, passed away February 27, 2017.
Katie Wolff Nelson, BSN’46, MSN’63, of Maryville, Tennessee, passed away March 24, 2018.
1947

LaNelle Blackston Baxter, BSN’47, of Augusta, Georgia, passed away May 19, 2019.
Anna Ragsdale Gentile, BSN’47, of Napa, California, passed away April 19, 2019.
Virginia Maxwell George, BSN’47, MA’72, of Nashville passed away July 26, 2018. She was VUSN professor emerita and was featured in Vanderbilt News that September.
Mary Brownfield Hydrick, BSN’47, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, passed away February 10, 2024. She was 99.
Iola McClellan Manoogian, BSN’47, of Henrico, Virginia, passed away March 16, 2024. She was 102. Vanderbilt Magazine included her story that August.
Martha Crews McBurney, BSN’47, of Alexandria, Louisiana, passed away November 20, 2021.
Margaret Fort Meggs, BSN’47, of Springfield, Tennessee, passed away June 7, 2023.
Verne Feeback Nesbitt, BSN’47, of Syracuse, New York, passed away August 21, 2016.
Claudia Piper O’Connor, BSN’47, of Dallas passed away June 8, 2022.
Theda Deuel Royall, PMC’47 (Peabody), of Richmond, Virginia, passed away June 18, 2022. She was 104.
Josephine West Shultz, BSN’47, of Tesuque, New Mexico, passed away July 29, 2021. She was 100.
Ada Trice Smith, BSN’47, of Nashville passed away February 24, 2021.
Ruth Phillips Sullivan, BSN’47, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, passed away in June 2019.
Elsie McGill Tinkler, BSN’47, of Greenwood, South Carolina, passed away April 29, 2021.
1948

Dorothy Chapple, BSN’48, also known as Mother John Marie Stewart, of Amarillo, Texas, passed away May 26, 2018.
Camille Legeay Cook, BSN’48, of Washington, D.C., passed away February 17, 2021.
Barbara Ricard Longley, BSN’48, of Port Charlotte, Florida, and Boscawen, New Hampshire, passed away November 7, 2020.
Mary Floreen Lankford Pullen, BSN’48, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away November 9, 2020.
Betty Hinkle Salyer, Peabody N’48, of Brentwood, Tennessee, passed away July 17, 2024. She was 100.
Mary Jane Anderson Stiver, BSN’48, of Newton, North Carolina, passed away in July 2015.
Lillimae Gray Thomas, BSN’48, of Elk Grove, California, passed away May 11, 2023.
1949

Nancy Butts Armistead, BSN’49, of Decatur, Alabama, passed away July 27, 2016.
Mary Nash Ross Betts, BSN’49, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away April 13, 2017.
Mavis Burton Dauphinee, BSN’49, of Wilber, Nebraska, passed away May 4, 2018.
Jane Bragdon Hanron, BSN’49, of Hingham, Massachusetts, passed away May 15, 2021.
Lucille Turner Ouzts, BSN’49, of Elberton, Georgia, passed away June 4, 2020.
Nell Rehberg Palmer, BSN’49, of Bryan, Texas, passed away September 23, 2017.
Frances Pfau, BSN’49, of Fairfield, Alabama, passed away September 6, 2015.
Jean Ritchie, BSN’49, of Trenton, Illinois, passed away August 23, 2019. She was a retired colonel in the U.S. Army.
Dean Lowrey Stout, BSN’49, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away September 16, 2017.
Betty Rabun Stroup, BSN’49, of Nashville passed away September 12, 2017.