Month: June 2025

  • A mostly forgotten medical first on June 14, 1965

    A mostly forgotten medical first on June 14, 1965

    June 14th of 2025 marks the 60th anniversary of a little-known medical miracle involving one of my cousins. Robert Lindsey Pennell, son of one my grandmother’s sisters (first cousin once removed) was from Hickory, was just shy of 25 years old and was early into serving a three-to-five year prison sentence related to a burglary.…