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Marita Dighans Wittkopp, now of Austin, Texas was listed among 22 nurses recently, as an Honorable Mention, for top nurses from the Texas Nurses Foundation and Texas Nurses Association Board of Directors for her dedication, perseverance and compassion exhibited during the exceptional year of 2020.

Marita is the daughter of Helen and the late John Dighans of Peerless. She was a 1976 graduate of Peerless High School and later entered the Army. Marita and her family now live in Austin where she is a registere...