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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 7, 2009
Mary G. Thomas, a former operating room registered nurse and homemaker, died Wednesday of cancer at her Towson home. She was 80. Mary Marceline Groft, the daughter of a Western Maryland College groundskeeper father and seamstress mother, was born and raised in Westminster. She was a 1946 graduate of Westminster High School and was a graduate of the Union Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. Mrs. Thomas worked in the operating room at Union Memorial Hospital for several years and in Baltimore as a nurse.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | June 28, 2009
Katherine C. Turner, a former registered nurse and Towson neighborhood activist, died Monday of heart failure at Oak Lodge Senior Home in Pasadena. She was 85. Katherine Clemson, who was also known as "KC" or "Kitty," was born and raised in Westminster. She was a graduate of Westminster High School and attended what was then St. Mary's Female Seminary, now St. Mary's College, and earned a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1944 from the old Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | June 23, 2009
M. Michele Hancock, a retired registered nurse who had worked at several area hospitals, died of adenoid cystic carcinoma June 12 at the Jewish Healthcare Center in Worcester, Mass. The former Cross Keys resident was 58. M. Michele Hendricks was born and raised in Reisterstown. She was a 1968 graduate of Western High School and earned an associate's degree in nursing from Baltimore Community College in 1970. Mrs. Hendricks worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital, where she specialized in adult neurology, and later at South Baltimore General and Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | May 29, 2009
Blanche D. Hanson, a retired registered nurse and World War II veteran, died of complications from multiple sclerosis May 21 at Greater Baltimore Medical Center. She was 86. Blanche Dorfler, a daughter of a carpenter and a nurse, was born and raised in Towson. After graduating from Towson High School, she earned a nursing degree from the Maryland General Hospital School of Nursing in 1944. She enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps and in early 1945, she joined 700 other nurses traveling aboard the SS Marigold, an Army Transport Service hospital ship, to Pearl Harbor.
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January 20, 2009
Clementine Nagy Briganti, a former registered nurse and longtime volunteer, died Jan. 10 of natural causes at her Severna Park home. She was 85. An avid knitter, Mrs. Briganti volunteered at many schools and organizations, including T.O.P.S., a weight-management support group. She frequently traveled with her husband of 62 years, retired Marine Col. E. Briganti. Services were held Wednesday at St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in Severna Park, where she had been a member and volunteer since moving to the area 46 years ago. In addition to her husband, survivors include sons Joseph Briganti of Niceville, Fla., Frank Briganti of Severna Park and John Briganti of Chesapeake, Va.; daughters Terry Moorman of Chase and Nancy Briganti of Pasadena; 15 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.
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December 24, 2008
Margaret K. Barnhill, a homemaker and former nurse, died of complications from a broken hip Monday at the Devonshire retirement community in Palm Beach, Fla. The former Baltimore resident was 92. Born Margaret Kathryn Hurd in Havre, Mont., she was a descendant of Swedish and Scots-Irish immigrants who obtained a 320-acre property under a homesteading act. She was raised in a cabin on the land, which remains in the family. She met her future husband, Robert B. Barnhill, while attending nursing school in Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Barnhill and her husband moved to Baltimore County in the early 1950s.
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By Liz F. Kay | October 6, 2008
Eugenia M. "Jeanne" Kappler, a nurse-midwife who delivered many babies during nearly four decades in Maryland, died Tuesday of lung cancer at Brakeley Park Care Center in Phillipsburg, N.J. She was 83. Miss Kappler, a native of Oxford, N.J., was the youngest of seven children. She served in the Army Cadet Nursing Corps from 1943 to 1946 and graduated from St. Francis School of Nursing in Trenton, N.J., in 1946. A decade later, she received a nursing degree from Villanova University. Miss Kappler also studied to be a certified nurse-midwife at the Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1958, and earned a master's degree from the University of Maryland in 1959, said her niece, Mary Alice Bockman.
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By Fred Rasmussen | July 19, 2008
Arlene E. Baybutt, a registered nurse who was active in Republican politics, died of a cerebral hemorrhage July 12 at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The longtime Easton resident was 86. Arlene Evans was born and raised in Utica, N.Y. After graduating from Clinton Central High School in 1939, she earned a bachelor's degree from Syracuse University Hospital School of Nursing in 1943. She worked as a private duty nurse in Rochester, N.Y., until 1943, when she married Dr. John E. Baybutt Sr., a pediatrician.
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By JACQUES KELLY | July 7, 2008
Carmelita M. Coolahan, a retired nurse, died Thursday of complications from old age at her Cambridge home. The former Wilkens Avenue resident was 91. Born Carmelita Lehman in Baltimore and raised in Westminster, she was a 1932 graduate of St. John's High School. She attended classes at what was then Western Maryland College and was a 1938 honors graduate of the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing. In 1940, she married Dr. John F. Coolahan Sr., a general practitioner. Mrs. Coolahan was a member of St. Agnes Hospital Auxiliary for several decades and was its president from 1960 to 1961 and from 1961 to 1963.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | July 2, 2008
Donna M. Brister, a registered nurse and educator, died Thursday of disseminated intravascular coagulation, a blood disorder, at Sinai Hospital. The Winfield resident was 47. Donna Marie Cone was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., She earned her nursing degree from Nazareth College in Rochester, N.Y., in 1981. "She was a month away from getting her master's degree in nursing from Walden University," said her husband of 21 years, Lawrence Scott Brister Sr. For the past decade, Mrs. Brister had been an emergency education specialist at Sinai Hospital.