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By Jed Duvall
Special to the Rappahannock News
You may know Bob Duxbury of Amissville. He is tall and rangy and white-haired. You see him at auctions and ot her events around the-county. You see him delivering to various stores the honey that he gathers from his beehives. You used to see him when he was the man in charge at the Amissville dump, until the year before last.
If there is ever a blood drive, you certainly will find him there. Bob Duxbury, it turns out, donates blood with extraordinary enthusiasm. He has been donating for 50 years. By his calculation, the Red Cross has drained 23 gallons of Duxbury’s blood. By the Red Cross’ calculation, that means Duxbury has helped as many as 552 persons with those 23 gallons.
Duxbury started donating blood in 1958 at the Arlington Chapter of the Red Cross.
“I was 22 years old,” he says, “just barely out of the U. S. Air Force.” The inspiration came from his father, who also was a regular blood donor.
“At that time it was very competitive,” Duxbury says. “You didn’t dare miss a blood date. I was competing
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