2009: October

Thomas M. Gragg MD, psychiatry, d. September 30, age 71. Born in Albuquerque 5/3/38.  Med school: Northwestern.  Career in California.  Retired to Tucson in 2001.  Never a member.
 
Barbara Joann Ross RN, d. October 3, age 82.  Trained at St. Mary’s, becoming a nurse in 1948.  Retired 20 years ago.     
 
Mary F. Buss RN, d. Sept. 19, age 86.  Worked for State of Arizona.           
 
Lois Jean Baker RN, MS, Lt. Col USAF ret., d. Sept. 25, age 78.  Nurse in air force.  Became primary care nurse practitioner.  Taught at UA College of Nursing 1978-1984.        
 
Linda Susan Massey Terry, nurse, d. Sept. 22, age 59.  Worked as surgical nurse in L&D at TMC.    
 
Kay Graham RN, d. Sept. 19, age 89.  18 years as nurse at St. Joseph’s in Tucson.   
 
Evelyn K. Childress, nurse, d. September 18, age 95.  Nursing school Kings County, Brooklyn. 
 
Jean Brookner, nurse, d. Sept. 18.  Nursing school Lenox Hill.   
 
Jesse Newman, pharmacist, d. Sept. 5, age 84. Chief of Pharmacy at VA 1963-1981.
 
Others:  Harriet Mae Fuchs, widow of Morton Fuchs MD and mother of Michael Fuchs MD (Tucson internists, both of whom served as PCMS presidents) d. October 3, age 80.

Ralph L. Probstfeld, father of Michael Probstfeld MD, died Sept. 25, age 88.