I got a phone call.

A few days ago I had a nice conversation with a woman who said she was born at Brookfield in 1944.  She was delivered by Dr. Gwen S. Hudson, a female OBGYN.  Dr. Hudson specialized in babies born to unwed mothers, apparently writing several papers in medical journals about the subject.  She had a practice in the Medical Arts Building.  The woman said she was born at Brookfield and that her birth mother was 16 and her birth father was a young serviceman.  She was placed at the VA Home Society and was adopted to a wonderful, loving family at 8 months of age.  Her adoptive mother went to the Glen Allen Brookfield location in the late 1970s inquiring about birth records and was told that personal patient records had been burned.  I have heard this from several people saying the records were burned or otherwise destroyed.
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