Dorothy Hyatt Triplett

Dorothy Hyatt Triplett, 74, of 24 Spears Avenue, Asheville, died Wednesday, September 8, 2004, at the Hospice Solace Center following a courageous battle with cancer. Mrs. Triplett was born December 31, 1929, in Asheville and was a daughter of Sallie Wiggins Hyatt and the late Charles M. Hyatt. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Theodore Triplett and by a brother James R. Hyatt. Mrs. Triplett attended the Asheville City Schools, Montreat High School and was a 1948 graduate of Montreat College. She received her diploma from the Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in Miami, FL in 1951 and her B.S. in Nursing from the University of Miami in 1953. She did graduate work at Western Carolina University, the University of Miami, Florida International University and Miami Dade Community College. Mrs. Triplett served as a Lieutenant in the US Navy Nurse Corps at the Naval Hospital in Pensacola, FL, where she was Head Nurse, supervisor, and member of Inservice Education Committee. She was also selected for the Disaster Medical Team, a group of doctors and nurses who were available for emergencies in any part of the world. She was a former Clinical Nursing Supervisor, former nursing instructor and former Head Nurse for the Obstetrical Recovery Room, the Surgical Floor and the Orthopedic Floor at Jackson Memorial Hospital. In Asheville she served as Director of the Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute School of Practical Nursing. She also worked as the Director of Inservice Education, Assistant Director of Nurses, and instructor in the School of Nursing of Memorial Mission Hospital. She was a former member of the American Nurses Assocation, the NAACOG, and the American Legion. Surviving in addition to her mother are two sisters, Frances H. Sowell and her husband John of Marietta, GA and Betty H. Cooper and her husband Charles of Asheville; several devoted nieces and nephews and a sister-in-law, Patricia Hyatt. Funeral Services will be at 11:00 a.m. Saturday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with Chaplain Jane Curran (Mountain Area Hospice Chaplain)officiating. Burial wil be at Calvary Churchyard, Fletcher. Her family will receive friends at the funeral home one hour prior to the service. Memorials may be made to Mountain Area Hospice Foundation, PO Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813.