Lillian Gordy Carter former president was diagnosed with cancer in 2015, at the age of 90. In 2010, he had a severe stomach ache which was mistaken as that disease. He has been a fund-raiser and booster for research into a cure for the disease. In 2001, a major nursing center was dedicated in her honor in Plains by Jimmy Carter in recognition of her first years of service to the community as a nurse. In 2011 she was inducted into the Georgia Women of Achievement. Lillian Gordy Carter Bessie Lillian Gordy Carter (August 15, 1898 – October 30, 1983) was the mother
Lillian Beard Lillian Beard Lillian McLean Beard (born 1943), is a pediatrician and has served as a spokesperson for the American Academy of Pediatrics. With the mission of reaching patients within their homes, Lillian M. Beard utilized various forms of mass communication, from magazine publications to television news sources, to reach the homes of innumerable women. Lillian McLean was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Beard decided at an early age to pursue medicine. Living with single mother, Woodie McLean, and a younger sister, McLean was dedicated to her studies from the beginning of her formal education. Traveling two hours each