Dr. Georgeanna Jones

 

 

Age: 92

 

Summary: physician who helped to develop the program that led to America's first "test-tube baby", whom she and her husband Dr. Howard Jones established the in-vitro fertilization program at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1978, in which the couple announced the 1981 birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the country's first baby conceived outside the mother's body.

 

 

Cause of Death: Cardiac arrest

 

Born: July 6, 1912

 

Died: March 26, 2005

 

Location: Richmond, Virginia