In Memoriam: 1940s

Notices sorted by graduation date

Doris Cox Browne (Nurs ’46 CM) of Williamsburg, Virginia, died Feb. 5, 2023. While studying nursing at UVA, she answered the federal government’s call for nurses to serve in the armed forces during World War II, along with the majority of her classmates. She joined the Cadet Nurse Corps and served in the U.S. Navy. When posted in Washington state after the war, she met her husband, also a naval officer. She retired from the Navy to start a family and accompanied her husband to postings in California, England, Michigan, and Rhode Island, where she ran his medical practice after he retired from the Navy. In 1997 she and her husband moved back to her home state of Virginia and settled in Williamsburg. She had a lifelong passion for education and took college courses whenever she could, especially in history and English literature. Survivors include two sons, two daughters, two grandchildren and two sisters.