Nancy G. Washburne, 86, of Jenkintown, the former longtime director of the library department of diagnostic imaging at Temple University Hospital and a volunteer domestic violence counselor, died Friday, March 4, of complications from dementia at home.
In 2000, she was credited in the American Journal of Roentgenology for helping four authors publish an article called,Earlier, Mrs. Washburne worked at Temple’s Paley Library, and her family noted her “fierce pride in her career, coworkers, and the Temple organization” in a tribute. She was also a consultant and board member for the Jenkintown Library, and served as a longtime volunteer counselor for victims of domestic violence at the Women’s Center of Montgomery County in Norristown.
She married Robert Washburne in 1957, lived in Jenkintown and had daughters Catharine and Diana, and son Robert. She liked to cook and bake, especially apple pie and shepherd’s pie, and invited everyone she knew to her signature Sunday dinners. Her husband’s job sent the family to Switzerland and then France from 1971 to 1977, and Mrs. Washburne worked as a librarian and teacher at international schools in Zurich and Cannes. They later divorced. He died earlier.
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