Dedicated nurse wins BWMC, county honors

Genevieve "Genny" Wilbourne is never really off duty.

That was evident last August, when the nurse at Baltimore Washington Medical Center stopped at the scene of a one-vehicle accident on Fort Smallwood Road to administer CPR to the victim. The driver, who later died, had been thrown 100 feet from her car.

"I have a mask that I carry with me all the time, so I used that," said the 67-year-old Pasadena woman. "She had a pulse but wasn't breathing."

This spring, the county Fire Department honored Wilbourne, and two other residents who stopped to help that day, with a Citizens Exemplary...