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Debbie Gardner
Debbie Gardner, 74, of Holmes Beach, died Sept. 17 in Lexington, Kentucky. Born June 17, 1952, in Dayton, Ohio, she graduated in 1970 from DuPont High School in West Virginia. She earned her RN from Morris Harvey College (now University of Charleston) and her bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Kentucky. She retired after a nearly 50-year nursing career.
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