Dr. Denmark Passes At 114 Yrs Old

Aerianne · Apr 3, 2012

The pediatrician I went to as a child passed away Monday. I learned so much about caring for children from this lady.

The world has lost one of the its oldest residents with the death Monday of Leila Denmark , a former Alpharetta resident. She was the 4th oldest person in the world.

She had been getting round-the-clock medical care for many weeks. She moved to Athens from Alpharetta – where she practiced medicine until she was 103 – a few years ago and lived on Morton Avenue with her daughter and only child, Mary Denmark Hutcherson.

Dr. Denmark was graduated in 1926 from the Medical College of Georgia, the third woman to do so, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald . She moved to Atlanta and was the first resident at Egleston Children's Hospital.

According to her website , Dr. Denmark opened a practice in her home after Mary was born in 1930. She subsequently practiced pediatric medicine in her Atlanta home, then in Sandy Springs and finally Forsyth County, for 71 years.
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http://alpharetta.patch.com/articles/dr-denmark-worlds-4th-oldest-person-dies-in-athens

Tyrsonswood · Apr 3, 2012

Amazing...

skip · Apr 3, 2012

Wow, no docs like that anymore...

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