HomeMy Public PortalAboutTOL PR 2010-05-05 Orr Family photo presented
Town of Leesburg
News Release
For Immediate Release
Contact:
Betsy Fields
Research & Communications Manager
bfields@leesburgva.gov
703‐771‐2734
Historic Orr Family Photo Presented to Leesburg’s
Sunrise Assisted Living Center
Building now occupied by Sunrise Assisted Living was the home of
Dr. William C. Orr, cofounder of Loudoun Hospital, and his family
Leesburg, VA (May 5, 2010) – On April 20, 2010, seven cousins, the grandchildren of Dr. William
Clayton Orr and Mary Page Dunn Orr, gathered on the porch of their grandparents’ former
home on West Market Street in Leesburg. The house, built in 1912, is now occupied by Sunrise
Assisted Living. The cousins presented a framed copy of a photo of Dr. & Mrs. Orr and four of
their seven children, taken on the same front porch in 1914, to Susan Balinger, the Director of
Community Relations, Sunrise Assisted Living of Leesburg.
Pictured from left are Pam
Moore Conley of Atlanta,
GA; Page Steele of Houston,
TX; Louise Lee Noye
Winchester, VA; John D.
Moore III of San Mateo, CA;
Page Glascock of
Middleburg, VA; Page Mo
Ochs of Louisville, KY; and
Caroline Lee Roberts of
Whi
s of
ore
te Post, VA.
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“It gives us great pleasure to present this portrait of our grandfather and his family to Sunrise
Assisted Living,” said Page Steele. “We felt this would be a fitting tribute to their memory to
donate this portrait to the center. We hope that the residents will enjoy knowing whose home
this was.”
Dr. William Clayton Orr was a graduate of Virginia Medical College in Richmond. He first moved
from Richmond to Hillsboro, and later settled in Leesburg. In 1912, Dr. Orr, Dr. John Gibson, Dr.
Truman Parker, pharmacist Horace Littlejohn and P. Howell Lightfoot founded the Leesburg
Hospital in a rented house at 9 West Market Street, a building now occupied by Leesburg
Hobbies & Collectibles. In 1914, the name of the hospital was changed to Loudoun Hospital
and in 1918, the hospital moved into a new building on the western edge of Leesburg, at what
is now the Cornwall Campus of Inova Loudoun Hospital. Dr. Orr served as president of the
hospital from its founding in 1912 until his death in 1926.
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