Lee County FlArchives Obituaries.....Jennings, Rufus Bridges October 7, 2011
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Charlotte Grove http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007435 October 28, 2011, 5:25 pm

The News Press  Oct.27,  2011
 Dr. Rufus Bridges Jennings, 74, died October 7, 2011 under hospice care in 
Ft. Myers, FL. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina February 8, 1937 as the 
son of Rufus Bridges and Sarah Beckham Jennings.
 Rufus grew up in south Georgia and north Florida. He graduated from Leon High 
School in Tallahasse in 1955 and graduated from Florida State University in 
1959. He then moved to Maryland to attend John Hopkins Medical School, where 
he graduated in 1963. He completed his residency in pediatrics at Johns 
Hopkins, and then returned to complete his fellowship in pediatric cardiology 
at Hoplins after several years in the U.S Navy.
 In 1970 Rufus met his wife, a Navy nurse at Portsmouth Naval Hospital, N.H. 
They were married in 1971. After resigning his commission in 1973, he began 
work at Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk, Virginia as a 
pediatric cardiologist. In 1994 he and his wife moved to Ft. Myers.
 Rufus leaves behind his wife of 40 years, a son and daughter and their 
spouses and two grandsons and his sister.
 A memorial service will be held at Faith United Methodist at 1 PM on October 
29, 2011, Ft. Myers. 

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