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was a teacher in Woodville’s tworoom school. “I remember Dr. Snead from the School Board asking me to take the job,” Mrs. Thornton recalled. “I told him I wasn’t a teacher, but he argued that the big sixth grade boys had already scared away two teachers. He didn’t think I’d let them scare me, and he was right.”
She stayed in the classroom for a year and half until Rappahannock County organized its first, public health service.
Frances Thornton had grown up in the county. Except for three years at Madison College and another three at UVA, she’d spent her life in Rappahannock. She had established relationships with many of the local people. “It would have taken someone else 10 years to learn what she knew when she started,” said Mrs. Quaintance.
And though she’d left the little two-room school in Woodville, she continued working with children. She arranged for doctors to visit the schools, providing many youngsters with their only regular medical care. When the county supervisors discontinued funding for the program that brought dentists to the schools, Mrs. Thornton and Mrs. Quaintance raised money and support, taking their case to the head of the State Dental Department. They brought back a dental chair and a commitment for services from young graduates of dental school.
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