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CityViewNC.com | 13 910-485-0555 Remember us During Giving Tuesday! Basic Medical Care Dental Extractions Laboratory Tests Pharmacy Services Referrals to Specialists Diagnostic Testing thecareclinic.org/get-involved Fayetteville is home Magda and Dave were married 10 days aer graduating from Marymount College in Tarrytown, New York, and they have been married for 56 years. ey have four sons — Scott, Terry, Chris and Russell — and seven grandchildren, ranging in age from 14 to 22. eir sons were born in different parts of the world as the family followed Dave's military career. He was stationed at Fort Bragg — now Fort Liberty — with their longest stretch in Fayetteville from 1981 to 1988 and returned in 1994 when Dave, also 78, retired from the military as a colonel. His last post was in Germany, and they returned to Fayetteville because "it's home." Dave then began a second career as a physician assistant, graduating from Methodist University in 2000 and retiring from his civilian job in 2022. When the last of the boys le home, Baggett returned to work in human resources. "We moved a lot," she says. "He went to Vietnam twice, so that created a lot of independence on my part and that of the kids because he was gone a lot." Helping in the community Baggett became a volunteer for Better Health of Cumberland County, serving multiple terms on its board of directors and as president in 1998-99. "Magda is the type of board member to jump in and be hands on whenever needed," says Amy Navejas, who was executive director of Better Heath and worked with Magda for five years. "She is a doer in every sense. She is willing to put the sweat equity and hard work to make things happen and ensure clients who are in need receive the support that they deserve." Baggett was then a social worker at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for seven years, a job that included "a lot of counseling, a lot of helping the families or the wounded or the injured or the sick." "Magda is genuine in her love of people and in her belief that through service, positive change can be effected," says Sue Hunter, who was Baggett's supervisor at the hospital. "Magda is an open-minded, nonjudgmental person who loves people no matter their circumstances, background or ethnicity." Hunter says Baggett worked with doctors, nurses and therapists to achieve

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