Dr. Mary Parker Smith, 99, of Paducah, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022 astatine Baptist Health successful Paducah.
Mary was calved to Dr. and Mrs. James E. Parker successful Gray, Kentucky, connected Feb. 18, 1923. She grew up successful Corbin, Kentucky, wherever her involvement successful medicine began arsenic a teen arsenic she drove her begetter to sojourn his patients successful the countryside. She attended Union College successful Barbourville, Kentucky, and followed successful her father’s footsteps to postgraduate from the University of Louisville School of Medicine successful July 1945 astatine the property of 22, 1 of lone 3 women successful her class. While successful aesculapian school, she joined chap student, William Hampton Smith, whom she had met successful a subject laboratory astatine college. After graduation, she worked with mothers and children done the Public Health Department successful Louisville.
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