Corabelle "Cora" Alice Lovejoy Russo Eddy, 73, of Royalton, Vt., died Thursday, April 2, 2015, at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. She was born June 25, 1941, the only child of Clayton and Goldie (Hudson) (Austin) Lovejoy. She attended grade school in Burke Hollow, Vt., and high school at Lyndon Institute in Lyndon, Vt. In 1960 she attended Fanny Allen School of Nursing and became a LPN, and in the 1990s attended Vermont College and became a Registered Nurse, fulfilling a lifelong dream. She was always a nurse in specialty units, Intensive Care, Cardiac Care, and Nursery. At the end of her career she was a psychiatric nurse at the VA Hospital in White River Jct. where she was known as Grandma Cora by the patients. Her Baha'i faith was a comfort to her throughout her long illness. She married Gene Raymond Russo in 1963 and had three sons, Turner (Randy) Russo of Randolph, Vt., Craig A. Russo and his wife, Margaret of Claremont, N.H., and Clifford A. Russo of Newtown, Conn. She married Ralph G. Eddy in 1976, and had one son, Robert G. Eddy and his wife, Sharon of Moscow, Idaho. She had many hobbies and interests, sewing, knitting, crocheting, cooking, ceramic, gardening, and genealogy, among many others. She was a nurse to all living things and could get houseplants and animals to grow and thrive when others would consider them lost causes. Her love of animals was a lifelong passion. Her cats, dogs, and other pets were her adopted children. Above all, she had a kinship with turtles, she was a veritable turtle whisperer. She was predeceased by her first husband; her parents; two brothers, Pearly Austin and Vern Austin, and nephews Norman Austin and Nathan Austin. She is survived by her second husband, her four sons, and much loved grandchildren, Isobel Russo, Gretchen Eddy, Imogen Eddy, and Rohen Eddy, five nieces and one nephew and many cousins. She is being buried June 12, 2015, with Oscar, her last cat of 19 years that passed a few weeks before her, in the East Haven Cemetery, East Haven, Vt.