LOCAL LEGEND DIES Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Dies After Short Illness
Reported by: Latasha Hughes
Web Producer: Mamie Buoy
Reported: Jan. 26, 2012 9:33 PM EST
Updated: Jan. 26, 2012 9:38 PM EST
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Huntington
, Cabell County
, West Virginia
A local legend who has a hospital named in her honor has died.
Dr. Mildred Mitchell-Bateman passed away Wednesday from a short-term illness.
In 1999, Governor Cecil Underwood renamed West Virginia's leading mental hospital, the Huntington State Hospital, the Mildred Mitchell-Bateman Hospital to honor her many accomplishments.
Dr. Bateman was also nominated as a local legend by Representative Shelly Moore Capito.
There will be a memorial service at Bream Presbyterian Church on February 4th at 2pm.
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