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Dr Shirley L. Rivers Munroe

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Birth	:	6 May 1925 New Jersey, USA
Death	:	22 Dec 2007
Burial	:	Evergreen Cemetery, Gainesville, Alachua County, USA
Coordinate	:	29.6282997, -82.3153000
Description	:	Shirley L. Rivers, MD, passed away Friday, December 22, 2006 at Hospice of the Valley Sherman Home, associated with Mayo Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona. She was the Director, Red Cross Southern Arizona Regional Blood Program from 1977 to 1993. In Tucson for the Red Cross she led the effort to acquire a cancer and blood cell separator in 1977, and in 1979 she oversaw a study to detect blood hepatitis B antigens in donated blood. She retired on June 30, 1993. Shirley was born in Orange, NJ on May 6, 1925 to Leon M. and Hildegarde Rivers. Leon was employed by... Read More	Shirley L. Rivers, MD, passed away Friday, December 22, 2006 at Hospice of the Valley Sherman Home, associated with Mayo Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona. She was the Director, Red Cross Southern Arizona Regional Blood Program from 1977 to 1993. In Tucson for the Red Cross she led the effort to acquire a cancer and blood cell separator in 1977, and in 1979 she oversaw a study to detect blood hepatitis B antigens in donated blood. She retired on June 30, 1993. Shirley was born in Orange, NJ on May 6, 1925 to Leon M. and Hildegarde Rivers. Leon was employed by Thomas Edison in his NJ workshop. The family later moved to High Point, NC, where Shirley finished High School. Shirley graduated from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, with an AB degree. She earned her MD at Bowman Gray School of Medicine of Wake Forest, NC. She completed her three Residencies at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, North Carolina Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC, and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in 1953. Shirley was awarded Fellowships in Research Hematology (Sloan Kettering) and the National Cancer Institute Emory University (1955-57). She taught as a Clinical Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Grady Memorial Hospital, and Assistant Professor at the Georgia State University in the school of Allied Sciences. She held medical licenses in North Carolina, New York, Georgia, and Arizona. While at Emory University in Atlanta, Shirley met her husband, Walter Bedford Monroe where they both participated in Little Theater activities. Walter had taught Drama and had graduated from the Pasadena Little Theater in California. Shirley's cousin, Warren Rivers, a U.S. Army Chaplain, married them in the Methodist church at Emory. During their residence in Atlanta, Walter earned an LLB in Law and practiced in Atlanta. Shirley's work experience included Research Associate, Cancer Chemotherapy, VA Hospital in Atlanta and Staff Physician at the VA Hospital, Atlanta. She was also attending physician at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, 1966-77. She was board certified in internal medicine (1968) specializing in internal medicines, hematology, and blood banking. The couple later relocated to Tucson, where she was Director of the Red Cross Blood Services. She authored numerous papers, giving presentations at many events around the nation. Shirley and Walter's interests were wide ranging, sharing a mutual enthusiasm for bird watching, the Arizona Sonoran Desert Museum, the Audubon Society, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, the Opera, and Theater. They traveled abroad to medical conventions and meetings, which included trips to the Orient, Great Britain, Europe, and the Greek Islands. Dr. Rivers belonged to the Pima County Medical Society and remained a member until her death. She was a member of many Medical Associations and Societies, but one organization brought her special pleasure and many friends was Altrusta International, Tucson Chapter, a group of Professional Women. Her husband Walter preceded her in death in 2001. The couple had no children. Shirley relocated to Phoenix to be near her cousin Lacy Johnson and his wife Jaimie. She was a resident of the Terraces Assisted Living Facility. Other surviving family are cousins, Elizabeth Trulock, Francis Ringl, and Evelyn Wilbanks. Shirley and Walter's remains will be taken to Gainesville, Florida for interment in the Rivers Plot at the Evergreen Cemetery where her mother and father are buried. Arrangements by Messinger Indian School Mortuary, Scottsdale.

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Parent

Leon Madison Rivers

(1896 - 1967)

Hildegard Martha Fiebke Rivers

(1897 - 1971)

Spouse

Walter Bedford Munroe

(1930 - 2001)

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