In her 70s, when most people are well into retirement, Veronica Norman was still working as a nurse at St. Elizabeths Hospital, the District’s psychiatric facility. Her family had encouraged her to retire, but Norman insisted on continuing the nursing work she had been doing for 40 years.
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Veronica Norman, a nurse who wouldn't hear of retiring, dies of COVID-19 at 75
By The Washington Post
| May 25, 2020
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