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Sr. Margaret Ahl, 83, died Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007, at the DePaul Provincial House in Menands, near Albany, New York, USA. Margaret Catherine Ahl, known as Peggy to her family, was born in 1923 in Jamaica, New York, but moved to Baltimore, Maryland, soon afterward. She entered the Daughters of Charity in 1943, where she became known as Sister Angelica for the next 35 years, but resumed her own name, Sister Margaret, when it became permissible. After serving for many years as director of three hospital-based nursing school in Michigan, Florida and Massachusetts, she began studies at Boston University, earning a doctoral degree in 1975. At that point, she embarked on a new challenge, an assignment to lay the foundation of a baccalaureate program in nursing for Palestian Arabs at Bethlehem University, on Israel’s West Bank. Sister Margaret retired to DePaul Provincial House in Menands in 2000 where she served almost seven years as community archivist, completing her 64 years as a Daughter of Charity. For more information, visit http://www.legacy.com/TimesUnion-Albany/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId
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Quilla Dean Bell, 64, retired assistant professor of the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center [the institution’s name was recently changed to University of Colorado Denver] died on May 20, 2007 at her home in Austin, Texas, USA, of complications related to diabetes. She received a bachelor’s degree in nursing and a master’s degree in maternal child health from the University of Oklahoma and a PhD in nursing curriculum and supervision from the University of Pittsburgh. From 1985 to 1992, she served as assistant professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Nursing, where she was known as Quilla Bell Turner. She was also an assistant professor at Idaho State University and Indiana State University, where she also served as acting chair of the Department of Health. For more information, visit https://www.cu.edu/sg/messages/
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Teri Moore Breitinger, 62, of Chelsea, Alabama, died Oct. 11, 2007. She was the daughter of Willis D. and Dana H. Moore Jr., also of Chelsea. Breitinger graduated from Vincent High School, earned a BS in nursing at UAB and an MS in nursing administration at George Mason University.
She and LCDR Thomas L. Breitinger, USN, were married in November 1980, and together they completed his 30-year naval career. As such, she devotedly fulfilled her responsibilities as the wife of a Navy ship's captain, staff officer and Defense Attache, all while pursuing her nursing career.
This included highly dedicated service to patients at the following locations: Kings Daughters Children's Hospital, Norfolk, Virginia; Portsmouth Naval Hospital in Virginia; the Visiting Nurses Associations of both San Diego and northern Virginia; the U.S. Embassy in Santiago, Chile; and private duty work treating AIDS patients in Norfolk. She also worked to vaccinate Amazon River Basin Indians in Venezuela and as sub-acute care charge nurse at Sharpe Hospital in Coronado, California.
She elected to donate her remains for the benefit of medical research via the Alabama Organ Center and UAB. Donations may be made to The Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, attention Foundation, at 550 West North St. Indianapolis, IN 46202, or by calling (317) 917-4918 or visiting www.nursingsociety.org/Foundation/
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Rosemary Berkel Crisp, 70, a noted business leader as co-owner of Pepsi MidAmerica Company, women’s healthcare activist, philanthropist and mother of six children, died Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, surrounded by her loving family, after a 12-year battle with ovarian cancer. Inducted in 1991 as an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau International, she was recently honored by Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) with its prestigious Inspiring Women of Achievement Award. The honor befitted Crisp’s lifelong devotion to improving the quality of health care services across Southern Illinois and beyond. She served on dozens of boards, foundations and committees during her lifetime. At the time of her death, she was a trustee of the Lincoln Academy of Illinois and a director of the National Institute of Health, National Institute of Nursing Research in Washington, D.C.; the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; the John A. Logan College Foundation in Carterville, Illinois; the University of Tennessee Women’s Philanthropy Alliance; and the Marion Civic Center Foundation in Marion, Illinois. Past board of director positions include director of the National League for Nursing in New York City and the Society for Advancement of Women’s Health Research in Washington, D.C.Born in Chicago, Crisp graduated in 1958 from St. Mary’s Hospital School of Nursing in Evansville, Indiana. She worked as a nurse from 1958 to 1960 at Marion Memorial Hospital in Marion, Illinois. She married Harry L. Crisp II in 1960 and focused her energies on raising a family, community service and growing the family business, Pepsi MidAmerica Company, which she co-owned with her husband. From 1970 to 1985, Crisp was a volunteer nurse for the American Red Cross, Lions Club and Girl Scouts. Even though she ceased practicing as a nurse in the mid-1980s, she continued to renew her nursing license every two years. She was co-founder of the Southern Illinois Women’s Health Conference and also served on the board of directors for the Hands of Hope clinic, which offers free health care to needy families. |
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Elizabeth K. Grossman, 84, passed away at her home in Carmel, Indiana, USA, on Sept. 24, 2007. Dean of Indiana University School of Nursing from 1973-1988, Grossman helped create the only doctoral nursing program in the state of Indiana, the first clinical nurse specialist program in the state and inititated distance-education courses for the school’s master’s program. Considered a pioneer in the movement to bring fathers into the delivery room, she was also instrumental in bringing the headquarters of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International to Indianapolis. For these and other achievements, she was named one of ten Hoosiers—residents of Indiana—who made the most difference in the 20th century, joining such famous names as “Doc” Bowen and Eli Lilly. For more information, visit http://www2.indystar.com/cgi-bin/
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Lenore H. Kurlowicz, 54, of 226 W. Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, died Friday, Sept. 21, at Devon Manor in Philadelphia. Kurlowicz, associate professor of geropsychiatric nursing and clinical educator at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, conducted research on depression and other cognitive status changes in older adults. Recognized for her many publications regarding her research, she was recently inducted as a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing for her stellar contributions to the field of geriatrics. Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Kurlowicz received her bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. “Dr. Kurlowicz was a wonderful nurse and serious and dedicated researcher who made lasting contributions that will improve outcomes for many years. All who knew her as a colleague will miss her,” said Afaf I. Meleis, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Eileen O’Hagan McCauley, passed away on April 24, 2007, after being hospitalized for a brain aneurysm. McCauley obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from California State University, Sacramento in 1970 and her Master of Science degree in Family Nurse Practice from University of California, Davis in 1974. She spent the majority of her career at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, where she practiced in the Pilot Adult Nursing Practitioner Program, later becoming the Ambulatory Care Director and retiring in 1997 as assistant administrator. At the time of her death, she was a nursing consultant with the Department of Developmentally Disabled Services. For more information, visit http://www.legacy.com/SacBee/
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John Phillip McGovern, MD, 85, inducted in 1989 as an honorary member of Sigma Theta Tau International, died May 31, 2007 in Galveston, Texas, USA. McGovern, who trained as a pediatrician, opened an allergy practice in Houston in 1956. His practice, combined with successful investments in securities and land in downtown Houston, enabled him to establish the John P. McGovern Foundation, which supports universities, museums and medical libraries in Texas and around the country. After opening his private practice, now located in Bellaire, near Houston, McGovern taught at the University of Texas, Houston, and at Baylor University, where he was chief of the allergy section in the pediatrics department from 1956 to 1978. For more information, visit http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:j8MBN6JDFMJ:
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Teresa L. “Terri” Palmer-Erdman, 51, of Springfield, Ohio, died unexpectedly on August 29, 2007, at her residence in Springfield, Ohio. She worked as a registered nurse at Mercy Medical Center in Springfield for 23 years and was also a teacher of critical care nursing at Mercy. For more information, visit http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:
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Carolyn Seideman Zagury, RN, PhD, 60, of Oakhurst, Ocean Township, New Jersey, USA, died Sunday, Aug. 5, at home after a sudden illness. A graduate of Ann May Nursing School, St. Joseph’s College, The New School and Kennedy Western University, she had a long and distinguished career in nursing and hospital administration, working at Johns Hopkins Hospital and Monmouth Medical Center. She also worked as a private consultant for many public and private nursing care organizations. Most recently, she was employed by the New Jersey Hospital Association in Princeton as director of the Quality Institute. She was the author of several books on various nursing topics, and contributed many articles to nursing and hospital publications. |
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