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hands with everybody.”
“These people were special,” Mrs. Buntin said. “Some were mountaineers resettled from the park, and some of the poorest were some of the nicest.”
She should know, because while he was serving as the “law” in the county, she was superintendent of Social Services. When they first arrived here, Mrs. Buntin taught for a while at Washington High School. “When the job at welfare became available, I thought that might be a little easier,” she said. “I went from the frying Dan into the fire, but I made it my career and stuck with it.”
Mrs. Buntin had been trained as a teacher, not a social worker, but she said her situation was typical, and the state provided in-service training throughout her years in social service. For many of those years, she had only an office assistant.
“She had to do all the transporting,” Mr. Buntin said. “She knew every pig path in Rappahannock.”
Mrs. Buntin explained, “Dr. (John) Snead was a good general practitioner, but there were lots of complicated medical cases that needed the resources of the University of Virginia Hospital. I began taking people to the free clinics -there, and that part of the job mushroomed until we got the medical center here. I did public assistance and child welfare work. When I think back on that now, I’m amazed at what we did.”
She continued, “Many of the roads were not paved. One of the worst was the Bean Hollow' Road out of Flint Hill. I broke an engine block up there one time. ”
She worked closely with public health nurse Frances Thornton. “Our careers were parallel all through those years,” Mrs. Buntin said. “Frances and I had quite a few adventures together.”
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