IN MEMORIAM: Anne Bookhout, 68;
Founded Ithaca Public Health Agency
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ONEONTA – Anne Bookhout, an Oneonta native who, with an Ivy League education and a nursing degree from Hartwick College, launched a county-wide public health agency in Tompkins County, died unexpectedly May 28 at her Brooktondale horse farm. She was 68.
Bookhout was born March 23, 1948, in Oneonta, the fourth child of Judge Richard J. and Florence Fieg Bookhout. She attended Bugbee School and Oneonta public schools, graduating from Oneonta High School in 1966 and from Cornell University in 1970. She worked in various capacities in the healthcare field in Oneonta after receiving a nursing degree from Hartwick College.
In 1984 she returned to Cornell to earn a master's in healthcare administration. Anne then founded a key city-county public health agency, Visiting Nurse Service of Ithaca and Tompkins County, serving 20 years as chief executive officer.
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