A NURSE who tended to hundreds of newborns in Wodonga has been remembered as “vibrant, intelligent and motivated”.
Subscribe now for unlimited access.
$0/
(min cost $0)
or signup to continue reading
Alma Hedges, 89, died on August 14 after having spent her final years in the Albury and District Nursing Home.
Before retiring in 1990 she spent 25 years as a maternal and child health sister at Wodonga’s Stanley Street Infant Welfare Centre, helping assess newborns.
Eulogists Jennifer Burston and Sandra Bowdren told Friday’s funeral that Ms Hedges “was a vibrant, intelligent and motivated woman all her life”.
“Alma had the privilege of working with generations of mothers, with some of her babies coming back to the centre with babies of their own,” mourners heard.
“Alma had no biological children but she had a very large extended family and touched the lives of thousands of mothers, their babies and their families.”
Ms Hedges, who never married, was predeceased by a younger sister Marj in 2013.