Dr. Ruby G. Jackson

JACKSON Dr. Ruby G. Jackson of Concord, formerly of Wellesley, a pioneering physician in medicine in Massachusetts, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 28, 2012. She was the Valedictorian of her graduating class from Monson High School in 1933 and went on to major in Zoology at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, where she graduated with honors. From there she entered McGill University School of Medicine in Montreal and upon graduation entered what is now known as Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In her last year of residency, she became the first female House Officer and Chief Resident Surgeon in the history of the institution and the first female to complete her medical training there. While starting her private practice in Boston in 1954, she also served on the staff of Harvard Medical School as a physician and instructor for over 25 years, and was on the Medical Staffs of Simmons College, Brandeis and John Hancock Life Insurance Company. She later moved her practice to Weston until she retired in 1985. During her over 50-year career she cared for women from all walks of life and from all over the world. She was a member of several medical societies, published numerous articles in medical journals and was a very generous supporter of humanitarian causes all over the world. Yet above all, she will be cherished as a loving, caring friend, who never talked of herself or her accomplishments, but simply worked quietly to make this world a better place for us all and, in the process, opened doors everywhere for women in medicine. A long-time resident of Wellesley and member of the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Wayland, she moved to Concord in 2004. A memorial gathering will be held at the Trinitarian Church, 53 Cochituate Road, on Saturday May 19 at 1:00 P.M. and she will be interred in the Jackson Family plot in Hillside Cemetery in Monson. Contributions in her honor may be made to Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA; McGill University School of Medicine, Montreal, Canada; or the Trinitarian Church in Wayland, MA. Arrangements are being made by Duckett- J. S. Waterman & Sons Home of Memorial Tribute, SUDBURY, MA. For additional information, tributes and guest book, please visit www.duckett-waterman.com. Duckett-J.S.Waterman & Sons Sudbury, MA 978-443-5777