Nurse

Services for Barbara Paul, a former nurse, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Sol Levinson & Bros. funeral establishment, 6010 Reisterstown Road.Mrs. Paul, who was 47 and lived on Greenspring Avenue in Mount Washington, died early yesterday of cancer at the Jewish Convalescent Center.She practiced nursing for nearly 20 years before 1984, working at St. Agnes Hospital, the Good Samaritan Hospital and Levindale, and also teaching a course for nursing assistants.A native of Chelmsford, England, the former Barbara Bednarik was reared in Baltimore and was a graduate of Eastern High School and a former nurse training program at Mercy Hospital.

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.

Joan Brown Sadler, a nurse, avid gardener and volunteer for the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, died June 28 of breast cancer at Mercy Hospital. The longtime Roland Park resident was 76. "She would always say she was a professional volunteer," said her husband, Dr. John H. Sadler. "She was always doing things," he said. Born Joan Brown in Atlanta, she was the second of three children. Her father was a diesel mechanic and heavy equipment technician, and her mother was a homemaker.

Irene T. Barnhill, a retired nurse in the Baltimore City Health Department, died Thursday of respiratory failure at Baltimore County General Hospital.Services for Miss Barnhill, who was 83 and lived in Eldersburg, were to be conducted at 10:30 a.m. today at the Haight Funeral Home in Eldersburg.She retired in 1972 as a nurse in the Western Health District. During World War II, she served in the Army Nurse Corps in England. Earlier, she had worked as a private duty nurse.A native of Richmond, Va., who came to Baltimore as a child with her family, she was a graduate of Western High School and the nursing school at the Hospital for the Women of Maryland, which later became part of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center.

Mildred N. Josselyn, who retired in the early 1970s as a private duty nurse, died Jan. 28 at Union Memorial Hospital of complications of a skin disease. She was 92 and lived at Roland Park Place.She was a graduate of the nursing school at the Hospital for the Women of Maryland and worked there and as a school nurse at Hannah More Academy early in her career.She was born Mildred Newton in Earleville and graduated from Chestertown High School in 1920. She was a member of the Old Kent Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Graveside services for Ruth Krause, a retired nurse at Union Memorial Hospital, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Oxford Cemetery in Oxford, Pa.Mrs. Krause, who was 73, died of cancer Monday at her home in the Marylander Apartments.She retired as a nurse at Union Memorial in 1985.Born Ruth Galbraith in Oxford, she graduated from high school there and from Pierce's Business College in Philadelphia. She graduated from Union Memorial's nursing school in 1944.Mrs. Krause was a member of the Oxford Presbyterian Church.

Sister Francis Helen Lewandowski, a member of the Sisters of Bon Secours and a retired registered nurse, died of undetermined causes Nov. 17 at her order's provincial house in Marriottsville. She had celebrated her 100th birthday earlier this year. Anna Elinor Lewandowski was born and raised in Baltimore. She was an Eastern High School graduate and earned her nursing degree from St. Agnes Hospital School of Nursing. Sister Helen Francis entered the Sisters of Bon Secours in 1934 and professed her vows in 1937.

A mass of Christian burial for Gertrude C. "Trudy" Luck, a nurse who assisted her husband's medical practice in Cherry Hill for 34 years, will be offered at 11 a.m. tomorrow at St. Veronica's Roman Catholic Church, 806 Cherry Hill Road.Mrs. Luck, a resident of Washington Drive in Annapolis, died Dec. 27 at the Hershey (Pa.) Medical Center of cancer of the pancreas. She was 67.A native of Pittsburgh, the former Gertrude Carlock was reared and educated in Cincinnati. She received her nursing degree from the Meharry Medical College School of Nursing in Nashville, Tenn.

Services for Isabelle C. Davis, who used her training as a nurse in volunteer work, will be held at 10 a.m. today at the Second English Lutheran Church, 5010 Briarclift Road, in the Hunting Ridge area.Mrs. Davis, who was 90 and lived on Fernhill Avenue, died Sunday at Baltimore County General Hospital after a short illness.The former Isabelle Courtney was born in Gouldsboro, Pa., and graduated from the Moses Taylor Hospital nursing school in Scranton, Pa. While in nursing school, she worked at the Manhattan Maternity Hospital and the Henry Street Settlement in New York City.