In the fourth grade at Mocksville Elementary, Lynne Doss wrote a class paper answering the question, what do I want to do when I grow up.
She wrote that she wanted to be a nurse.
In high school, she was a “candy striper” at Davie County Hospital.
When she was 19, her father, Lonnie Tutterow, regularly woke her in the middle of the night to help respond to calls with his new ambulance service. “We would load up patients and take them to the hospital. I usually helped carry the stretcher,” she recalls. Tutterow became the first ambulance director in Davie County.
Those experiences helped shape the career of Lynne Doss, who has announced plans to retire as administrator of Davie County Hospital. Doss’s retirement will be effective Dec. 31, when she will have worked at the hospital nearly 40 years.
“Lynne is dedicated to Davie County Hospital,” said Donny Lambeth, chair of the board of directors and president of Baptist Hospital. “She has enjoyed a ...