Victoria Kimbrough, Lawrence

Dr. Kimbrough died Saturday, March 5, 2005, at her home.

She was born Nov. 17, 1910, in Oxford, Miss., the daughter of Gerald and Victoria Walton Fitzgerald. She was raised in Clarksdale, Miss. She graduated from Hollins College in Virginia in 1932, University of Tennessee in 1937, where she won the Faculty Award, and University of Michigan for her internship and residency in ophthalmology. She also did further research in New York and White Plains, N.Y. She lived in Knoxville, Tenn., and moved to Lawrence in 1957.

Dr. Kimbrough worked briefly as a medical lab technician and as a family doctor in Tennessee. She began her practice as an eye doctor in Lawrence in 1957. She was a member of AOA medical honor society, Friends of the Spencer Museum, Friends of the Lied Center, Friends of the Nelson Art Gallery, Kansas Advocates for Better Care, Audio Reader, KU Women’s Club and a supporter of the Villages Inc.

She married Dr. Robert C. Kimbrough Jr. on Sept. 18, 1940. He died in 1962.

Survivors include three daughters, Eliza Sundahl, Overland Park, Victoria Kimbrough, New York, and Lydia Kimbrough, San Diego; a son, Robert Kimbrough III, Lubbock, Texas; five grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials to Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Missouri, sent in care of the Lawrence clinic, 2108 W. 27th St., Lawrence 66047, or Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, sent in care of the Kansas City chapter, 920 Main St., Suite 280, Kansas City, Mo. 64105.