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A native of Lynchburg, Edna Ross Burton, RN, worked first as a physician’s
assistant, then as a Health Department nurse for the city of Lynchburg, and then
for twenty-four years for the Virginia Department of Health in Amherst County.
In 1972 she became coordinator of the Child Development Clinic for the Central
Virginia Bureau of Child Health.
The Central Virginia Health Planning Council presented Edna Ross Burton with a citation for faithful and meritorious service as a member of the board of the Central Virginia Health Planning Council.
A native of Lynchburg, Edna Ross Burton graduated from Dunbar High School and in 1938 received the RN from St. Philip School of Nursing, Medical College of Virginia. St. Philip had begun training nurses in 1920 and had stayed open even after the raising of standards in 1926 forced many other nursing schools to close. Edna Ross Burton is in the back row, second from left.
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