Hospital doctor Roadmeetings Hospital, Braidwood by Carluke, 1960-79 (b 1916; q Glasgow 1947), died from pneumonia and dementia on 5 April 2005.
Jenny decided to study medicine after nine years as a librarian. She spent some time working in Ayrshire and arrived at Law Hospital, Carluke, in 1949. In 1950 she transferred to the sanatorium and in 1951 married her boss. In 1960 she became medical officer at Roadmeetings Hospital, Braidwood by Carluke, where she was in daily charge of four wards of long stay patients, mainly with multiple sclerosis, but also some with psychogeriatric probliems. Jenny was involved in setting up three branches of the MS Society in Lanarkshire and received the MBE from the Queen in 1977 for her services to long stay patients. She retired in 1979. Predeceased by her husband, Ian, she leaves a son.
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