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BY MARIE F. ATKINS
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
When he was 16 years old, Earl Aylor had appendicitis and passed out one day while walking home.
Bleeding internally, he collasped on a rural road near his home in Culpeper County.
The year was 1948, and Mr. Aylor might have died but for a kindly man who stopped to help. The man put the boy in his car, drove him to the hospital in Warrenton and took care of him. The man was John Boldridge, an elderly doctor.
In time the boy was healed, but the physician’s deed left a deep impression. Mr. Aylor wanted to become a doctor and help others. “The compassion he had toward me, the way he took care of the situation,” explained Mr. Aylor, “I wanted to be like that.”
But young Mr. Aylor was poor and could not hope to afford medical school. Instead, he got a job with the federal government.
When he was a young man, he
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