May 26, 2021

We are saddened to report the death of Edwina Scudder Youth in Levittown, Pa on May 15, 2021.  She was born on August 2, 1934 in Huntingdon, Long Island to Edwin and Susan Scudder.  As a child, Edwina developed a passion for medicine and received a nursing degree from the Columbia University School of Nursing in September, 1955.  She became head nurse of the surgical department at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and later at Mercer Medical Center in Trenton, New Jersey.