Kathleen Leary Dodds, 94, of West Chester, a nurse who was a state inspector of nursing homes in the Philadelphia region in the 1970s, died of renal failure on Sunday, June 24, at her home.
Born in Bethlehem, Pa., Mrs. Dodds graduated in 1936 from Bethlehem Catholic High School and in 1940 from the nursing school of Misericordia Hospital.
She began her career as a nurse at what is now Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby from 1940 to 1942, daughter Joanne Dodds-Mueller said in an interview.
After marrying and raising a family, she worked as a nurse at Bryn Mawr Hospital from 1959 to 1962 before becoming director of nursing at Dunwoody Village, the retirement community in Newtown Square, from 1962 to 1967.
