Former Brave wraps up a stellar medical career

Nancy Llewellyn may not have known it at the time, but her years at La Conner High School in the late 1960s and early 1970s were a prescription for future success.

A positive prognosis was quite apparent even then to fellow students and faculty members alike, all of whom admired her keen academic skills, especially gifts for solving tough math problems and writing bold pieces for the campus newspaper.

The 1972 La Conner grad would go on to medical school at the University of Washington and a subsequent career in internal medicine.

She officially retired Sept. 1, having most recently devoted he...