12/16/2024
My best friend and “adopted 2nd mother”
Passed away suddenly on Thursday.
Barbara Ann was a registered nurse, from Nashville
Tennessee.
She had a fantastic life, and shared much of it with me over the years,
from tending to Elvis Presleys mother
as a young nurse in Memphis Tennessee,
to off handedly explaining how this ginormous silver
serving tray she had, was a wedding gift from Pat
Boone…..
After a divorce, and losing a close friend to cancer,
and Being abit “burned out” with nursing, she was at another crossroads in life, and a friend, knowing her compassion for animals, suggested she become an animal nurse. She applied at my hospital looking for
part time or full time work, showed up in a late model
Cadillac in 1996, and I was concerned about
“her age”, (she was, at that time, way younger than I am today!).
She worked with us for years, after retirement
she continued helping me with after hours emergencies, we called her the “ night nurse”.
Then as she approached her 80’s she would answer
emergency calls after hours and console distraught pet owners.
I called my office on her last day, to tell them I had to go be with Barb at the hospital, she was in icu, our emergency line had not been switched back to the hospital, and I was shocked when she answered the phone, (she always wanted her cell phone close at hand)
“Lawrence County Animal Hospital, how may I help you?”
She will be forever missed….God Bless you Barbara Ann on a wonderful life you shared with all!
