Memoirs of fifties Akividu or Akiveedu (ఆకివీడు), and neighbouring villages. Educational, geographical, historical, literary, philosophical, religious and social postings included. Copyright Raju (PD). (bondadaa@gmail.com)
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Former CBM Missionary to India Passes Away
TIMPANY, Dorothy Elizabeth - 95, CM MD FRCS(C), formerly of Windsor and Falmouth, passed away February 3, 2008, in Windsor Elms Senior Citizen's Home. Born March 6, 1912, in Peddapuram, Andhra Pradesh, India, she was the oldest daughter of missionaries, Dr. Clarke L. and Elizabeth Wright Timpany from Aylmer, Ont. Known as "Dot" to her friends and colleagues, she served as a physician/surgeon in India for 44 years.
She served in a succession of hospitals: Berhampur with the British Baptists, the Christian Medical Centre in Pithapuram, the Star of Hope Hospital in Akividu, before studying general surgery at the Christian Medical College and Hospital in Vellore.
Dot and two Indian colleagues, Susheela and K. Janaki, studied surgery in Scotland during her furlough in 1964-65.
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