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Home - Findings - Voices: Nancy Yoch

Voices: Nancy Yoch

I’ve had friends and family face diseases and overcome them. I’ve seen great strides happen in medical research. With perseverance, OMRF can find solutions to many more problems. You just have to believe there are things that can be conquered.

For Norman real estate agent Nancy Yoch, medical research is personal. In 1955, doctors diagnosed her sister, Linda, with polio. With the help of an iron lung, she survived. Later that year, the Salk vaccine became available, paving the way for a country free of polio.

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Read more from the Winter/Spring 2022 issue of Findings

Family Matters
Lessons in Philanthropy
Go East, Young Man
Hitting the Target
Life Changer
How Yellowstone’s hot springs paved the way for DNA testing
Strange Things

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