Jean McNutt Martin Glasgow

Jean McNutt Martin Glasgow, M.D., 98, of Roanoke, Va., died on Tuesday, August 31, 2010. Dr. Glasgow was born on October 14, 1911, at "Airy Mount," a large brick home in Augusta County, Va., built in the early 1800's by her grandfather, Captain James J. Martin, on a portion of the Borden Grant. After graduation from Middlebrook High School she attended Harrisonburg State Teachers College (now James Madison University) for two years. In order to obtain requirements for pre-med she transferred to the College of William and Mary. She was graduated in 1932 with a B.S. degree and a double major in chemistry and biology.
Dr. Glasgow entered the University of Virginia Medical School in the fall of 1932. She was graduated with an M.D. degree in 1936. Her grandfather, William Morton McNutt, had graduated from the University of Virginia in Medicine in 1856. She often remarked that she "was the granddaughter of a physician as well as the grandmother of a physician." Her granddaughter, Dr. Catherine Ferguson, was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1991.
Dr. Glasgow served her medical internship in Park View Hospital, Rocky Mount, N.C., 1936 to 1937. She began a pediatric internship at Duke Hospital in 1937 to 1938. While at Duke she had a training period in Baltimore, Md., at Sydenham Hospital, the city hospital for communicable disease. She continued pediatric training at Bellevue Hospital, New York, N.Y., from 1938 to January of 1939.
In January of 1939 she became the resident physician at Farmville State Teacher's College (now Longwood University), Farmville, Va. She remained there for 18 months. This was the same institution where her mother, Jean McNutt, received her teacher's certificate years earlier when it was the Farmville Female Seminary.
In July 1940 she became the resident physician on the East Campus of Duke University (then the Women's College) in Durham, N.C. She was also an assistant resident in pediatrics. She served the two roles halftime each.
On May 30, 1941, she and Ralph A. Glasgow, Roanoke attorney, were married at New Providence Presbyterian Church in Rockbridge County, Va. They were divorced in 1963, neither remarried. Ralph A. Glasgow died in 1982.
Dr. Glasgow began a private practice in pediatrics in Roanoke, Va., from 1942 to 1948. After 1948 her medical career shifted to psychiatry. The University of Virginia and Duke Medical Schools offered a residence in psychiatry. She entered the latter program, attending from 1948 to 1952.
Dr. Glasgow was then on the staff of the Salem Veterans Administration Hospital from 1952 to 1972 except for special leaves of absence. Post World War II veterans were being treated at the Salem Veterans Administration Hospital, one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in the V.A. system.
In 1964 to 1965 she served as Director of the Mountain Empire Clinic and was also on the staff of St. Albans Hospital in Radford, Va., dividing her time equally between the two positions. A year later she was a consultant of the staff of the Guidance Center in Roanoke, Va.
Partly because of leaves of absence from the positions mentioned, and partly because of "moonlighting," Dr. Glasgow was able to extend her services to various other areas during 1962 to 1976. She served as consultant psychiatrist in state mental health clinics in Virginia as well as West Virginia. She was the psychiatrist and helped organize the Greenbrier Valley Mental Health Clinic in Lewisburg, W.Va. She served in mental health clinics in Princeton, Hinton, Union, and Lewisburg, W.Va.; and in Radford, Roanoke, and Clifton Forge, Va.
Dr. Glasgow was a member of the Advisory Board of the Juvenile Court in Roanoke, Va., in 1968. She held memberships in the Roanoke Academy of Medicine, the Southern Medical Association (life member), the American Medical Association, and the American Psychiatric Society. She was a member of the Thomas Jefferson Society at the University of Virginia and held a lifetime membership in the UVA Alumni Association. She was also a member of the UVA Medical School Alumni Association, and was her medical school class (1936) representative for a period of 10 years. She was a member of the UVA Medical Alumni School Cornerstone Society. In 2008 she became a member of the UVA Compass Rose Society for her outstanding leadership and direction to the University Health System.
Dr. Glasgow contributed articles to various pediatric journals. She was listed in Who's Who of American Women, 7th Edition, 1972 to 1973. She retired from the V.A. Hospital staff in Salem, Va., in 1972, and from all professional work in January, 1976; ending a 40-year span of medical services. For several years after that she was a member of the Hospice at the Roanoke Memorial Hospital.
After the death of her grandson, Robert Bruce Robertson, in 1981, she became interested in the grief work of Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. She contributed funds to establish a workshop at the Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (EKR) Center in Head Waters, Va., in memory of her grandson. She attended a number of Dr. Kubler-Ross's workshops on grief, and paid for several family members to attend. She also was a volunteer at Roanoke Hospice.
It was during this period that Dr. Glasgow became very interested in making stained glass. While at the EKR workshops she made over 100 stained glass butterflies to be given to participants. She was a talented stained glass worker and made several lovely large pieces for family and friends. She continued with this interest until she moved to Brandon Oaks where she no longer had facilities for working with stained glass. Dr. Glasgow has lived at Brandon Oaks in Roanoke since the spring of 1994.
Her parents, six brothers and two sisters and their spouses, several nieces and nephews, as well as her grandson, Robert Bruce Robertson, and her son-in-law, Eric Miller, predeceased her.
Her four children and their families survive her. They include, Allen Martin Glasgow, M.D., and his wife, Jody, of Winchester, Va.; and their son, William Newton Glasgow, and wife, Carrie, and their two daughters, Abigail McDowell Glasgow and Emma Ralston Glasgow, and their son, Thomas Martin Glasgow, of Nokesville, Va.
Jean Venable Glasgow Robertson and her husband, Robert (Bob) Hundley Robertson, of Roanoke, Va.; their daughter, Professor Jean (Kelly) Venable Goode, Pharm. D. and her husband, William, and their daughter, Ann-Robert Venable Goode, of Richmond, Va.; and a foster son, Kham Say Sayyassene, of Lowell, Mass.
Margaret McDowell Glasgow Miller, of Augusta, Ga.; her son, Robert Scott Ferguson, of Virginia Beach, Va.; and her daughter, Catherine Lowrie Ferguson, M.D., of Augusta, Ga.
Lowrie Ralston Glasgow, M.D. and wife, Margaret Rogstad Glasgow, Ph.D. of Greenville, S.C.; their daughter, Heather Rogers Brooker, and her daughter, Margaret (Maggie) Emily Brooker, and son, John (Jack) Andrew Brooker, of Greenville, S.C.; their son, Andrew McDowell Glasgow and his wife, Kara, and their daughter, Isabelle Marie-Ann Glasgow, of Glen Allen, Va.; and their son, Samuel Lowrie Glasgow, of Charlottesville, Va.
She is also survived by a number of nieces and nephews, Samuel Martin, of Cape Cod, Mass, Anne Harper, of Springfield, Va., Lowrie (Bud) Martin, of Fairfield, Va., Norman Kirby, of Roanoke, Va., Jean Brice, of Dayton, Ohio, Louise Sterrett, of Raphine, Va., and Carolyn Pribble, of Richmond, Va. She is also survived by numerous great-nieces and nephews; and one special great-niece, Jean Gates Fowlkes, of Burkeville, Va.
Also, her devoted caregiver, Maxine Marshall, survive her and helped care for her beloved dog, Missie.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that a memorial may be sent to the Jean Mc