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Article: A down to earth `people person'
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- The Nelson Mail
- Article date:
- May 28, 2005
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A long-serving, top nursing administrator in Nelson, who was
awarded a Queen's Service Medal for her services to the community, is
remembered by friends and colleagues as a down to earth "people
person''.
Barbara Phyllis White died in Wellington in April.
Born in Wellington in 1939, Barbara completed her general nursing
and maternity training there before venturing overseas to gain
further nursing experience in England and Australia, returning to New
Zealand in the mid-1960s.
In between getting married and having four children, she held
senior positions at Waikato Hospital and Southland Hospital.
She was appointed principal district nurse to the Nelson Area
Health Board in 1979 - a ...