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Trailblazer: Shirley Bacon, BS, RN

Trailblazer: Shirley Bacon, BS, RN

A trailblazing nurse, a cardiac researcher and their doctor daughter

Shirley Bacon was one of Syracuse’s first Black nurses. Read about her journey and her family’s connections to Upstate at https://www.upstate.edu/whatsup/2014/1204-upstate-and-the-bacons-in-the-1960s-two-careers-one-marriage-and-a-baby-girl-who-wants-to-be-a-doctor.php

 

Today, Shirley and her husband are healthy, happy and wintering in North Carolina.

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