Eleanor Maxine Bennett died at age 93 from complications of old age and a series of strokes on Dec. 23, 2008, in Madison. In 1953 she became a full time faculty member of the University Medical School as an associate professor in the Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, and was the only woman on the faculty. She later became chairman and professor of Otolaryngology in the Department of Surgery at the University of Wisconsin Medical School.
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