VIRGINIA NASH WEATHERHEAD - Submitted for the USGenWeb by Richard P. Sevier 11/25/09

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VIRGINIA NASH WEATHERHEAD - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Cleveland (OH)Plain Dealer November 25, 2009

DR. VIRGINIA NASH WEATHERHEAD, 89, died on Nov. 17, 2009 at home in Tallulah, Louisiana.
 
Born in Ballardsville, Mississippi to Dr. Jesse Albert and Desse Ballard Nash, who both died soon 
thereafter, Virginia and her brothers, Sherrill and James Herschel Nash, spent their childhood in the 
Methodist Orphanage in Jackson, Mississippi, and in Starkville, Mississippi. 

Virginia became a registered nurse in New Orleans, and married Dr. Leonard Apter in 1942. When Dr. Apter 
died after a brief illness in 1944, Virginia entered Tulane Medical School. She graduated with honors 
near the top of her class. She chose an internship in internal medicine in Hartford, Connecticut where 
she met, and in 1952, married Dr. Arthur Dixon Weatherhead, a psychiatric resident from London, England. 
Her beloved husband passed away in April of 2009. 

The Weatherheads spent most of their professional lives at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland Ohio, and lived 
in Kirtland, Ohio. After she retired, Dr. Weatherhead twice volunteered for Project Hope in the Caribbean 
nation of Grenada. She and her husband volunteered at the Cleveland Clinic for many years, with its hospice 
program and in other capacities. She also volunteered regularly at the Holden Arboretum. She supported Habitat 
for Humanity, the Arboretum, and the Kirtland Library, among other causes. 

In keeping with her sensible and selfless life, she donated her body to the Louisiana State University Medical 
Center. Virginia is survived by two daughters, Len Carpenter (John W. IV) of Tallulah and Ann Weatherhead of 
Cleveland Heights, Ohio; three grandchildren, Claire Carpenter Avant (Jim) of London, Kate Carpenter Hoefer (Andy) 
of Atlanta, John W. Carpenter V of Omaha, Nebraska; one great-granddaughter, Evelyn Kate Avant; and nieces and 
nephews and their children. Contributions may be made to the hospice which helped care for Dr. Weatherhead at the 
end of her life: Patient's Choice, 10 Crothers Dr., Suite 2, Tallulah, LA 71282.