From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Born in Elkton, KY, Ponder was head nurse of Recovery and the Intensive Care area at Louisville (KY) General Hospital from 1957-1959 and head nurse at the Louisville and Jefferson County Health Department from 1959-1965. She was director of nurses at Park-Duvalle Community Health Center. Ponder also assisted in establishing health services in western Louisville. In 1955, Ponder was one of the first African American registered nursing students at Louisville General Hospital, and was the first to live in the student nurses home. She was the wife of Raymond Ponder.

Flora B. McGuire Ponder died in 1925 and is buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in Louisville, KY. She was the daughter of Elizabeth M. Wisdom McGuire and James Henry McGuire.

For more see Profiles of Contemporary Black Achievers of Kentucky, by J. B. Horton; and the NKAA Database entry for Louisville General Hospital School of Nursing, Integrated.