Dr. Sarah R. Chitwood, affectionately known to friends and patients as Dr. Sarah, died in Roanoke from pneumonia September 28, 2010. Dr. Sarah was born in Newport News, Virginia on October 14, 1922. She graduated from Man High School, home of the Hillbillies, in Logan County, West Virginia May 23, 1940. Following completion of an undergraduate degree in Pre-Medicine from West Virginia University on May 23, 1943, Dr. Sarah attended the Medical School of the University of Virginia and received a degree in Pediatrics June 14, 1948. Following graduation she married the late Dr. Ed Chitwood, Jr. of Wytheville, Virginia. Dr. Sarah then worked as a contract physician for the US Army in Germany for approximately two years. Dr. Sarah completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Childrens Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky in 1953. Dr. Sarah and her growing family moved to Pulaski in 1953 and eventually settled in the Draper community in 1963. Although Dr. Sarah initially practiced Pediatrics, she soon changed to the mental health field, working at many of the health departments in Southwest Virginia, including Pulaski, Floyd, Salem, and Roanoke. Dr. Sarah had lifelong passions for painting, reading, music, gardening, cooking, and tennis. Dr. Sarahs parents, Dr. Russell Watson Roberts and Ottie Virginia Akers Roberts, predeceased her. Also predeceasing Dr. Sarah were her husband Dr. Edmund Madison Chitwood, Jr. and an infant daughter Sarah Chitwood. Surviving Dr. Sarah are her sister Jeanne Roberts Linam of Shreveport , Louisiana and Mrs. Linams four daughters, Linda Etter of Dallas, Texas, Carole Gaskins of Raleigh, North Carolina, Alexa Hutchens of Natchitoches , Louisiana , and Jeannie Linam of San Francisco, California; Dr. Sarahs five children Bryan Roberts Chitwood and his wife Monica of Greensboro, North Carolina, Dr. Ava Chitwood of Tampa, Florida, Susan Howard Chitwood and her husband Henry Smyth of Cortland Manor, New York, Dr Edmund Madison Chitwood, 3rd , his wife Suzanne Tanner Chitwood and their son Dawson Lee Chitwood of Charlottesville, Virginia, H Lee Chitwood, his wife Pamela Morris Chitwood, and their four children, Rachel Elizabeth Chitwood, Edmund Douglas Chitwood, Madison Ellen Chitwood, and Riley Ann Chitwood of Pulaski, Virginia. Dr. Sarahs family will gather in her honor October 30, 2010 from noon to 4pm at the home of Lee Chitwood, 20 Northwood Drive, Pulaski, Virginia. The family invites all who wish to share a memory of Dr. Sarah to attend on that date. The Chitwood family is in the care of Mullins Funeral Home & Crematory in Radford. www.mullinsfuneralhome.com