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on weekends to see “their doctor,” she explained. The increase was to discourage them from coming on Sunday.
In 1967 “Young Doc Snead” left to go into psychiatry.
“Psychiatry is something I’d always wanted to do,” he said. “I decided if I was ever going to do it, I had to just do it.” So, he left to begin a five-year residency in psychiatry, and again Rappahannock had only one doctor.
For about four and a half more years, Dr. Snead carried on, but in January, 1972, he decided he had to retire after 39 years of general practice in Rappahannock, most of those years as the only doctor in the county. He was having increasing trouble with arthritis. He and Pinkie moved to Boca Raton, Florida for the winter.
They enjoyed their retirement; the sun and surf was good for the arthritis, and they returned to Virginia during the warmer months.
Then after a few years Pinkie Snead developed Alzheimer’s disease. Everyone agrees that whatever reputation Dr. Snead had for impatience and gruffness, he was never gruff or impatient with his beloved wife. “He cared for her in a most loving and kind way,” Judge Snead said.
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