RUMFORD – Dr. Linwood Rowe leaves far more to Rumford Hospital than memorial donations that will be made in his honor. He established the Radiology Department (now called Medical Imagining) and grew it from a single X-ray machine to multiple rooms and imagining methods. Rowe brought mammography to Rumford and fought to have it accepted by referring physicians.

With funds from salvaging the silver in used X-ray film, he bought equipment for the Radiology Department and sent staffers to seminars.

He was always the first to step forward if any part of the hospital needed funds, according to Judy Broomhall, who worked with him for more than 25 years as his secretary and radiology transcriptionist. Rowe was instrumental in establishing at least one scholarship program for hospital employees.

Broomhall and Jackie Moore, a semi-retired radiology technologist, testify that the Radiology Department under Rowe was like a family.

The “family” always had a Christmas party at the Rowe home and another party in the summer at the doctor’s camp on Worthley Pond.

Rowe specified that gifts in his memory be earmarked for the Rumford Hospital Radiology (Medical Imaging) Department. Gifts can be sent to Community Relations, Rumford Hospital, 420 Franklin St., Rumford 04276.