Blevins, Betty
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Betty Blevins was born September 17, 1935 in the small town of Berry, Alabama. She graduated from high school there in 1953 and then went on to nurses' training at the University Of Alabama School Of Nursing in Birmingham. Her husband was hired at the Nevada Test Site as a journeyman electrician in 1963 and they moved to Las Vegas, Nevada with their two children.
When Blevins started working in Las Vegas as a nurse, there were only two hospitals, Sunrise and the old Memorial Hospital (now University Medical Center). She eventually worked at Memorial and Valley View Hospitals, and ended up back at Sunrise. She assisted during the first open-heart surgery with Dr. Ficus and the first corneal transplant with Dr. Shearing. Blevins passed away January 24, 2009.
