Ann Arlene Abbott

Background

Abbott, Ann Arlene was born on December 8, 1937 in Hutchinson, Kansas, United States. Daughter of Lawrence E. and Alberta Pearl (Learned) Abbott.

Education

Bachelor of science in nursing with honors, U. Kansas, 1959; Minnesota in Maternal and Child Health Nursing, U. Kansas, 1986; diploma nurse midwifery, Frontier School Nurse Midwifery, Hyden, Kentucky, 1992.

Career

Staff nurse obstetrics, Kansas U. Medical Center, Kansas City, 1959-1960; instructor maternity nursing, Butterworth Hospital School Nursing, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1960-1961; teacher childbirth preparation Topeka Night School Health Department, St. Francis Hospital, 1969-1970, 83-91; nurse consultant, Teen Aid School for Pregnant Teens, Topeka, 1969; public health nurse, Topeka-Shawnee County Health Department, 1961-1962; school nurse, Unified School District 501, Topeka, 1975-1977; staff nurse labor and delivery, St. Francis Hospital & Medical Center, Topeka, 1977-1991; staff nurse, student nurse-midwife, Holistic Birth & Growth Center, Topeka, 1989-1991; student nurse-midwife, The Cambridge (Massachusetts) Hospital, 1991-1992; staff nurse midwife, Concord Nurse Midwifery Association, Waltham, Massachusetts, since 1992.

Achievements

• Ann Arlene Abbott has been listed as a noteworthy Nurse midwife by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Volunteer counselor Carriage House-Dropin Center for Teens, Topeka, 1977-1978;leader Camp Fire Girls, Topeka, 1970-1971. Volunteer in schools Head Start, Environmental Education, Topeka, 1968-1982. Chairman lay ministry First Parish Unitarian/Universalist Church, Arlington, Massachusetts, 1994.

Member American College Nurse Midwives (certified nurse midwife).

Connections

Married Russell O. Settle Junior, August 2, 1958 (divorced February 1978). Children: Janet E., Natasha SettleKarlin.

Father:

Lawrence E. Abbott

Mother:

Alberta Pearl (Learned) Abbott

Spouse:

Russell O. Settle Junior

child:

Janet E. Abbott

child:

Natasha SettleKarlin Abbott