Dr. Nancy Kurfess Johnson is truly a medical pioneer. She grew up south of Toledo, in a small town called Luckey.

A farm girl for whom hard work was second nature.

“We ate our food out of the ground, and manure was the only chemical. I worked seven days a week, we milked cows twice a day, seven days a week for 50 years,” Dr. Nancy said.

Her family had modest means and no money for higher education, so Nancy worked hard to earn a full scholarship to Mather College for Women in Cleveland. She remembers the strict rules.

“We had to be in at 7 o’clock at night,” she recalls.

She graduated from college in 1948 but her dream of attending the Case Western Medical School, was just that, a dream.

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