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Florine K. Hampton, M.D., a coal miner’s daughter, born Sept. 18, 1918 in Kermit, W. Va., died July 11, 2007 in Tuscon, Ariz.
The fifth of six children, she became one of the first women barbers in West Virginia. After graduating from West Virginia University in 1947, she enrolled in the Medical College of Virginia and graduated in 1950.
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After working for several years at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, she moved to Sierra Vista, Ariz., in 1973.
At the time of her retirement in 1983, she was a contract surgeon at the Raymond W. Bliss Army Hospital on Fort Huachuca.
Diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease in 1995, for the last seven years of her life she resided in the Alterra Care Facility in Tuscon, her care supervised by long-time co-worker and friend, Dr. Jessie Pergrin, a retired professor of the University of Arizona College of Nursing.
Dr. Hampton is survived by her youngest sister, Margaret H. Hylton; as well as 10 nieces and nephews and 11 grandnieces and nephews.
Dr. Hampton’s legacy will live on through a scholarship fund at West Virginia University Medical School that she endowed in 1988, especially for the children of coal miners from the counties of southern West Virginia.
A memorial service will be held at the Sierra Vista Community United Church of Christ, 240 N. Highway 90 Bypass, Sierra Vista AZ 83635, on Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 1 p.m.
