Kay Carpenter, of St. Andrews Estates, knew she wanted to be a nurse after being hospitalized at the early age of three.

Now, the retired nurse and Boca Raton resident is paying it forward to the next generation of nurses through her newly created scholarship fund the Kay Carpenter Scholarship at Florida Atlantic University’s Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing.

“The nurses were the nicest and kindest people I met,” she said. 

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