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McGuire family photo

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  • This 1925 photograph shows the McGuire family with parents Dr. Wayne Patrick McGuire (1883-1978) and Dr. Daisy Zachary McGuire (1880-1980) in the back. Daisy became the first licensed female dentist in North Carolina when she graduated in 1908 from Southern Dental College in Atlanta. She was the oldest practicing dentist in the nation when she retired in 1977 at the age of 97. Wayne graduated from Southern Dental in 1912. Married in 1902, they practiced together their entire professional lives. Daughters (L to R) Alice Patsy, Kitty Dean, and Noracella Elizabeth all became practicing dentists with Noracella and Patsy working with their parents in Sylva and Kitty Dean opening a practice in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.