Susanne Smith Newton passed away peacefully in her sleep on Tuesday, July 27, 2021. She was born and lived in Raleigh, North Carolina most of her life. She attended Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1964 - 1967, receiving a BS in Nursing. After working in pediatrics for 22 years at Rex Hospital, she returned to UNC and earned an MSN and became a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner in 1994.
During her career, she worked at WakeMed Pediatrics, the Wake County Health Department, Rex Hospital, and later at Cary Pediatrics from 1995 until 2012. She was baptized at First Presbyterian Church in Raleigh, confirmed at the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, Virginia, and married her husband Ira Newton 53 years ago in the Church of the Good Shepherd in Raleigh.
Susanne is survived by three sons, Kenneth Scott Newton and his partner Kenann Bolton, Christopher Allen Newton and his partner Anne Marie Bradshaw, and Steven Kerr Newton and his wife Jennifer Safley Newton. She has four wonderful grandchildren, William Scott, Caitlyn Rene, Gabriel Allen, and Jackson Louis. She is also survived by numerous cousins and extended family that she deeply cherished.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in her memory to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital; https://fundraising.stjude.org/site/TR/GiftFunds/GiftFunds?px=7129123&pg=personal&fr_id=39300
Services provided by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 300 Saint Mary's St. Raleigh, NC.
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