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Article: Obituaries in the News
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- August 8, 2003
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Barbara Bonner
UPTON, Mass. (AP) _ Barbara Brewster Bonner, a veterinarian and turtle
conservationist who founded the Turtle Hospital of New England Inc.,
died unexpectedly at her home last week. She was 46.
A cause of her Aug. 1 death has not been determined, her husband,
Michael Penko, told The Boston Globe.
In the last decade, Bonner had been instrumental in developing protocols
to save endangered species of turtles, and worked to bring attention
to the plight of Asian turtles.
Bonner's family said that at an early age, she proclaimed her intention
to be a "frog doctor."
Bonner studied microbiology at the University of Massachusetts then
attended Tufts ...