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Georgeanna Seegar Jones, pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, dies at 92.

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Byline: HUSSEIN DAKROUB

Dr. Georgeanna Seegar Jones, who helped develop the program that led to America's first "test-tube baby," has died. She was 92.

Jones died Saturday of cardiac arrest at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. She had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in the 1990s.

Jones and her husband, Dr. Howard Jones, established the in-vitro fertilization program at Eastern Virginia Medical School in 1978 in Norfolk. In 1981, the couple announced the birth of Elizabeth Jordan Carr, the first baby in the United States conceived outside the mother's body.

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