Marjorie...
By Jake Slnlbw
"All her life has been
devoted to helping others! is
the way a neighbor describes
Miss Marjorie Elmore of
Moss Hill, a registered nurse
whose career as an operating
room nurse spaus almost
four decades.
She is a quiet and retiring
person, reluctant to discuss
her career or any achieve
ments attributed to her. She
admits she loves people and
adds quickly that "people
have been good to me." But
she denies any claim to being
a celebrity or someone above
the ordinary, every day
routine of neighborly living
in her community and in
lenoir County.
However, her dedication to
? others has been so consistent
and so pronounced in the
eyes of her neighbors and a
host of friends that these
friends have decided to tell
everybody how much she has
meant to the Moss Hill
community and its citizens
during the past 36 years.
July 11 Picnic
They have planned a
Marjorie Elmore Apprecia
tion Day and Picnic at the
Moss Hill School gymnasium
for 6 p.m. Saturday, July II.
The Moss Hill Ruritan Club
is spearheading the effort
and half a dozen committees
have been active the past
month making detailed plans
to make it a memorable event
for all of Miss Elmore's
family and friends. So if you
are a friend of this faithful
nurse and humanitarian, or
have benefitted from her
healing and helpful service
during the past 36 years, you
are invited to participate on
July II.
In a recent interview Miss
Elmore said a lot more about
the fine helpful v.rv.ce of her
neighbors than she did about
her own career. She is the
daughter of the late Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Elmore of Kin
ston Route 4, which em
braces the Moss Hill com
munity. Her immediate
family includes two sisters.
Mrs. Mary Alice Sutton of
LaGrange. Mrs. Helen
Howell of Kinston Route 4;
two brothers, Tom Elmore of
Seven Springs Route 1, and
Robert Elmore of Pink Hill,
two sisters-in-law, Mrs.
Harold Elmore and Mrs. L.C.
Elmore, both of the Moss
Hill community. There are
scores of nieces, nephews
and cousins by blood and
marriage that comprise the
closely-knit Elmore clan.
Went to Work
Miss Elmore, even in het
high school days at Moss Hill
School, dreamed of being a
nurse and helping the sick.
She enrolled in the James
Walker Memorial School of
Nursing in Wilmington and
completed the requirements
for a Registered Nurse in
1944. She applied and was
employed by Parrott
Memorial Hospital in
Kinston but worked only a
few months before she was
called into military service.
Her duty as an Army
Nurse was in the Southern
Division of the United States
and lasted one year and one
day. In referring to her
military nursing duty she
noted it lasted the same
length of time normally
issued bootleggers who had
to serve for making illegal
whiskey during prohibition
? a year and a day. She
welcomed her chance to get
back into the duty for which
she was trained and was
assigned by Parrott Hospital
to be the operating room
nurse. In this capacity she
worked long days and many
nights, as the work required.
She was ready to go when the
doctors had emergencies and
when they had elective
surgery to do. Her faithful
service earned her the
plaudits of the entire staff of
the hospital, including Dr.
R.G. Tyndall. Dr. Clifton F.
West, Dr. Dexter Withering
ton. Dr. Rachel D. Davis and
others over the years.
Took New Post
When the hospital was
merged with Lenoir
Memorial and the new plant
erected and opened in 1973,
Miss Elmore was employed
as the day operating room
supervisor, a position she
has held faithfully ever since.
She has no current plans to
retire, but when that day
comes she says "1 will not be
bored." She has a garden,
she has her family, and she
has a feeling of being needed
by those in her community
"who have been so good to
me," as she puts it. She
envisions a long and active
period of retirement which
she hopes will continue to be
blessed by her current good
health.
Her late mother suffered a
stroke some years before her
death and this called for all of
Miss Elmore's unique talents
and developed skills to cope
with the years of her
mother's confinement. She
was faithful to the end but
she does not mention that in
her interview. She recalls
how "Cousin Emma Jones,"
a neighbor who died about
two years ago, ca.ne regu
larly every Tuesday night for
a decade to visit her mother
and cheer her up. She recalls
how much her mother appre
ciated those breaks in her
routine and what they also
meant to her as a daughter
whose repsonsibility for her
mother was constant, but
never too heavy to bear with
good humor and a bright
outlook of hope for the j
future. \
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Revolution of Progress
Miss Elmore has seen a
revolution of progress in the
practice of medicine and in
the growing role of the
trained nurse in that
progress. In the beginning
even an appendectomy or
hernia operation could con
fire a patient two to three
weeks. But today they are up
the next day and often dis
charged before the week is
out. It has been an exciting
and rewarding period of
growth for \fiss Elmore and
she doesn't want to go back
to the "good old" days. She
notes too that the pay. from
her starting salary of SI20
per month in 1945. has ad
vanced now to a more
respectable living wage for
the R.N.s on private and
hospital duty, as well as for
practical nurses who elect to
serve in the ranks of Florence
Nightengale's successors in
modern health care. She
recommends her profession
to all who love and want to
serve people. To her it has
meant "a good life full of
rewards and many loyal
friends." but she hastens to
add. "What's so remarkable
about that?" She worships at
Union Baptist Church with
her neighbors and friends,
but she mentioned it only as
an after-thought. Those
neighbors and friends know
Miss Elmore serves her
Master and Lord daily in her
instant response to everyone
who is in need. No wonder
they have set JulyII as the
day to honor one who always
helps others.
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