Patty Roffe Ruttan stands near the site of the Cherry Lake Hospital, which came into being when the area was known as Cherry Lake Farms. Ruttan was born in the hospital in 1937, under the care of Dr. C.M. Knight and the attending nurse was Ethel Walker. The hospital was located in what is now the Cherry Lake United Methodist Church Cemetery. The hospital was located next to the cemetery at the time. After many years of service to the community, the hospital closed sometime around 1940. Ruttan's late father, Leroy Roffe, once had surgery in the hospital and offered an interesting take on its location. "It's an awful thing to wake up from surgery and the first thing I see when looking out of the window is the cemetery," said Roffe.
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