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Year Honored
2014
Honoree
Carrie Barlow
Title
Flight Nurse
Agency
Le Bonheur Pedi-Flite
Agency City
Memphis
Agency State
TN
Last Call
10/22/13
Biography
Carrie was born in Dyersburg to the parents of Jackie and Kay Moore. She was married to Keith Barlow in March of 2008, and together they have three children. She graduated from Dyersburg State Community College as a registered nurse and started working in the emergency room at Lauderdale County Community Hospital, eventually moving to the neonatal intensive care unit. Later she worked in the NICU at Jackson-County Medical Hospital and then pursued her dream of being a Pedi-Flite nurse at Le Bonheur Children's Hospital.<br /> She was a Christian who loved the Lord and had a natural passion for helping others. Being a mother of three, she loved working with children and was perfect at it. Carrie had a way of relaying to the families of the children that she cared for that their babies would be cherished and she would take care of them as if they were her own.<br /> <br /> On the early morning of October 22, 2013, Carrie was working with Respiratory Therapist Denise Adams and Pilot Charles Smith. The crew planned to pick up a boy who was in renal failure at a Bolivar hospital and take him to Le Bonheur, but the helicopter never reached the destination. The crew took off and all seemed normal, but approximately half way into the flight, the crew did not respond to a routine 10-minute check-in. Shortly thereafter, a search was started by land and air. The helicopter had crashed in a wooded area of Somerville, Tennessee about 45 miles east of Memphis. There were no survivors.<br /> <br /> Honored 2014