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Georgene Gaskill Eakes Mary Lermann Burke Margaret A. Hainsworth
1945 to present 1941 to present 1931 to present

Theory of Chronic Sorrow

Ann M. Schreier and Nellie S. Droes

“Chronic sorrow is the presence of pervasive grief-related feelings that have
been found to occur periodically throughout the lives of individuals with
chronic health conditions, their family caregivers and the bereaved”
(Burke, Eakes, & Hainsworth, 1999, p. 374).

Credentials and Background master’s level and a graduate fellowship from the North
of the Theorists Carolina League for Nursing for her doctoral studies.
She was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau International
Georgene Gaskill Eakes in 1979 and Phi Kappa Phi in 1988.
Georgene Gaskill Eakes was born in New Bern, North Early in her professional career Eakes worked in
Carolina. She received a Diploma in Nursing from acute and community-based psychiatric and mental
Watts Hospital School of Nursing in Durham, North health settings. In 1980, she joined the faculty at
Carolina, in 1966, and she graduated Summa Cum the East Carolina University School of Nursing in
Laude from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Greenville, North Carolina.
State University with a baccalaureate in nursing Eakes’s interest in issues related to death, dying,
in 1977. Eakes completed her M.S.N. in 1980 at the grief, and loss relates to the 1970s, when she sustained
University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her life-threatening injuries in an automobile crash. This
Ed.D. in 1988 at North Carolina State University. Eakes near-death experience heightened her awareness of
received a federal traineeship for graduate study at the how ill-prepared health care professionals and lay

Photo credit: Center for Health Sciences Communication, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC.
Photo credit: Olan Mills Portrait Studio, Centerdale, RI.
Photo credit: Shawn Hainsworth, New York, NY.

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