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April 11, 2013

Christine MacKensie

Filed under: Colorful Characters — Dale @ 2:34 pm

Yesterday we interviewed Christine MacKensie. She is 98 and a retired Public Health Nurse.

We didn’t know what a public health nurse is, so she filled us in.

Christine was a pioneer in the field of Public Health Nursing, having started in it in the 1930s, in Utah and California.

Public Health Nurses don’t treat patients directly. Instead, they advise local doctors and governments how to protect peoples’ health through sanitary water and sewage, immunizations, educating pregnant women, etc.

As you can image, there weren’t many public health nurses in the 1930s, and she had to blaze a lot of trails.

Christine helped set up programs all over the western US and Asia, including living and working in Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, etc.

That was quite an adventure for a single woman in those days.

Today, Christine is 98 and in excellent health. She walks without a cane or walker, doesn’t wear hearing aids, and lives on her own. She told us that “some day, I suppose they will take me out of here in a hearse, but today I feel fine.”

Christine is a remarkable person!

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