Vincent A. Fulgniti MD, pediatrician and founder of the UA College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, died March 19 from cancer, age 81.  Med sch: Temple ‘57. I- Philadelphia General Hospital.57-58.  R- St. Christopher’s (chief resident).58-61. F-Colorado 61’62.  Interested in pediatric infectious disease, he was a first-rate scholar.  He served as Acting Dean at the UA College of Medicine, dean at Tulane University Medical School and chancellor of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, where there is a bioethics pavilion named for him.  He was a PCMS member since his arrival in the 1960s.

Philip E. Greenman DO.  Services April 13 at Grace Episcopal, 10:30 a.m.

Jane Shepard RN, who graduated from St. Mary’s School of Nursing and worked at St. Mary’s in Tucson and at St. Joseph’s, d. March 4, age 84.

Irene Kendall LPN, a Tucson resident for 40 years and US Army veteran, d. in March, age 90.

Other:  James R. Darnton II, medical photographer at the University of Arizona Medical Center and St. Mary’s and for medical textbooks, d. March 13, age 69.  Steve Trujillo, AIDS activist and director of behavioral health clinic at El Rio Health Center, d. March 11, age 55.  Ronald E. Orth PhD, a professor of pharmacy at the universities of Kentucky, Houston and Arizona, d. March 22, age 83.  Jennifer K. Nelson, who served as a medical assistant with Dr. John Pifer for more than 30 years, d. March 17, age 57. Walter H. Brewer, father of local OB/GYN Walter Brewer MD, d. April 15, age 91.  Sofia Abrams, widow of Herbert Abrams MD, d. April 17, age 83.

Del V. Steinbronn MD, urologist, died in a plane crash in Casa Grande, Feb.6, age 65.  He was born in Phoenix and earned his MD from the UA College of Medicine in 1974.  He did residencies in urology and radiation oncology at the UA and joined the faculty.  He entered private practice in 1986.  He was a PCMS member 1978-present.

Charles Pullen MD, pediatrician, died Feb. 22, age 87.  He grew up in Flagstaff.  Med Sch: Southwestern Medical School (Dallas). Capt, US Air Force, stationed at DM in Tucson.  Private practice 1960-1980 in Tucson, during which he was a founding faculty member of the UA College of Medicine.  Lt. Col US Army at Fort Huachuca 1981-1985.  Worked at the hospital in Ganado, AZ, 1985-1994. He was an avid hiker, photographer and PCMS member.

Harold G. Carstensen MD, OB/GYN, d. Feb 20, age 87.  Med sch University of Chicago ‘49.  I- Chicago Lying in 49-50. R. Walter Reed ’54.  Lt Col US Army eight years.  Started practice in Tucson in 1956.  Moved to practice to Harlingen, Texas in 1975.  PCMS member 1956-1975.

Elizabeth Kayser RN, Who earned her nursing degree at St. Mary’s in Tucson and later became a nurse anesthetist and was president of the nurse anesthetist association, d. Feb. 5, age 72.

Eva Susan Poage RN, who worked at TMC as a nurse after graduation from the University of Arizona, d. Feb 16, age 60.

Mary Louise Crawford RN, who spent most of her life in Tucson and was a biofeedback therapist and advocate, died in Californis Nov. 6, 2012.

Patricia Ann Montano, who attended St. Mary’s Nursing School and worked at St. Mary’s and Pima County Hospital, d. Feb 16, age 80.

Betty Jo Stokoe RN, a Tucson resident 1968-1979 and since 1999 who earned her nursing degree later in life and worked at Tehachapi Hospital in California, d. Feb 23, age 82.

Mary Helen Allison RN, MPH, graduated from the St. Mary’s School of Nursing and went on to earn BSN and MPH from the University of Arizona.  She worked at Carl Hayden Hospital and was an ER nurse at St. Mary’s before becoming a supervisor and instructor of nursing at Pima Community College.  She died Feb 25, age 84.

Other - Joseph Leon Balensi, doctor of East Asian medicine and a founding member of the Arizona Board of Acupuncture, d. Feb. 14, age 61.  Ronald R. Gilman,  who became a lab tech in the air force and worked his way up to Lab Supervisor at Kino Hospital, d. Feb. 23, age 53.

Charles Francis Krecke MD, radiologist, d. Dec. 14, age 85.  Med Sch: Michigan ’53. I Blodgett Hosp (Flint MI), R-Henry ford Hosp (Detroit).  After serving in the Air Force, he practiced in Grand Rapids and was president of the Michigan Radiologic Society.  He worked and taught several years at the University of Arizona Medical Center, retiring in 2009.  He was never a PCMS member.

James J. Corrigan MD, pediatrician/pediatric hematologist, d. Dec. 19, age 77.  Med sch: Pittsburgh ’61.  I/R Colorado ’61-64. F Illinois ’64-66.  He was an assistant professor of pediatrics at Emory University when he accepted a position as the first pediatric hematologist at the UA College of Medicine in 1971.  He served as PCMS president in 1988. Dr. Corrigan became vice dean at Tulane’s school of medicine in 1990 and became dean in 1993, serving until 1999. When he returned to Tucson in 2002, he continued to teach at TMC and the University.  He was an active member of the PCMS History Committee.  He was a PCMS member 1971-2012.

George Orin Thomasson MD, general practice, d. Dec. 24, age 75. Med sch: UT Southwestern.  He was in general practice, a Coast Guard physicians, team doctor at Florida, on the faculty at Univ of Denver and a risk manager with COPIC.  He was never a PCMS member.

Preston Johnson Taylor MD, internal medicine, d. Dec. 28, age 87.  Med Sch: Utah ’46. I-Boston City Hosp. ’48-49.  He was a captain in the medical corps 50-51.  R-Presbyterian (Columbia) ’51-53.  He practiced in Salt Lake City before joining Tucson Clinic n 1956-1986.  He volunteered at the UA College of Medicine the clinical examination program for medical students.  He was a PCMS member from 1956-present.

David A. Mullon MD, internal medicine, d. in 2012 (only learned about Jan 4, 2013).  Med sch: Virgina ’49.  I/R-Bellevue Hosp. 49-51, (Army 51-53)53-55.  He practiced in Tucson 1963-1992.  He served on the PCMS Board of Directors 87-89 and was a member 1963-1992.

Maybelle Cremer Silverstein MD, OB/GYN, d. Dec. 8, age 84.  She practiced many years in Tucson and was the widow of Martin E. Silverstein MD, a Tucson general surgeon.

Gay Goodwin Evans FNP, who worked at El Rio beginning in 1977, d. Dec 14, age 74.

Theresa Mary Thorne RN, who worked at the VA as an OR nurse, d. Dec 13, age 92.

Lynne Dreher RN, a nurse who worked in New York and Tucson (since 1983), d. December 11, age 60.

Mariann Shinoskie, RN, JD, a nurse on the Navajo reservation, a nurse midwife for El Rio and an attorney in Tucson (and for some time represented the UA College of Medicine), d. Dec. 11, age 62.

Edith Tworkowski RN, a graduate Adelphi University, who was a real estate agent in Tucson after moving here in 1976, d. Dec. 16, age 89.

Margaret Slattery Magner LPN, who worked as a nurse in Tucson at the Comstock Children’s Hospital as well as in other hospitals and nursing homes, d. Dec 3, age 101.

Other:  Ann Braun Goldfein, widow of Sam Goldfein MD, d. Sept. 30, age 81. 

Franc Brodar MD, internal medicine, d. Nov. 16, age 87.  Born in Yugoslavia, he attended medical school at the University of Graz (Austria) and at Jefferson Medical College, ’57. After an internship at Mercy Hosp. in Darby PA, he worked in Whiteriver with the USPHS and had a general practice in San Manuel, Miami and Phoenix.  He studied anatomic pathology before during a THMEP residency in internal medicine in Tucson.  He entered practice in 1971. He worked in Tucson 1971-1997.  He was a PCMS member 1970-1977.

William E. de Alva MD, Family Practice, Administrative Medicine, d. Oct. 8, age 87.  Med sch. Nebraska, at age 40, 1964.  Prior he had been employed at Los Alamos.  I-St Joseph’s Hospital, Denver.  He practiced 24 years in Colorado before moving to Tucson to work in Cigna administration in Tucson.  He was a PCMS member 1990-2012.

Elliott Stearns MD. Only a death notice.

Connie Sue McGraw RN, who began her career as a nurse in the Navy and was an RN for 46 years, died September 29, age 70.

Lona Lou Waddell RN, a member of the Navy Nursing Corps in WW II, died September 26, age 90.

Jane Irene Albertson RN, d. September 25, age 79.

Sarah Christian Alexander RN, who was married to founding UA College of Medicine OB/GYN department chair Don Christian MD and Blue Cross/Blue Shield Executive and State Legislator Scott Alexander, d. October 12.  Her son-in-law is Walter Brewer MD. She worked off and on as a nurse and patient advocate throughout her life.

Jenifer Elyse Sheppard (nurse), who worked at Kindred Hospital as a floor worker, sales/marketing liaison and as a wound care nurse, d. Oct. 11, age 41.

Margaret Thompson RN, a graduate of the University of Arizona nursing program who worked as a psychiatric nurse in Toledo, OH until retiring to Tucson, d. Oct. 23, age 63.

Judi Burkhardt RN, a pediatric nurse who graduated from, and met her husband Boyd Burkhardt MD at, Deaconess Hospital in Boston, died November 6, age 73.

Mary L. Crawford RN, who worked as a cardiac nurse at UMC and had her own biofeedback therapist practice, d. Nov. 6.

Phyllis R. Vance RN, who worked for 30 years in Dr. Ronald Almgren’s office, d. November 12, age 85.

Judy Ann Walkup RN, a labor and delivery nurse for 27 years, d. November 18.

Other:  Ann Braun Goldfein, widow of Sam Goldfein MD, d. Sept. 30, age 81.  Linda Edwards Shelton, daughter of otolaryngologist Earl H. Brown MD who died n 1952, d. Oct. 10, age 71.  Megan M. Racz, daughter of Tucson internist Stanley Racz MD, d. Sept. 26, age 30.  Ellaine Bassford, mother of UA Department of Medicine chair Tamsen Bassford MD, d. Oct. 17, age 79.

Johannes (John) H. H. Penners MD, radiologist, d. August 25, age 89.  Amsterdam Medical School ’53. I-Trinity Lutheran (Kansas City) ’55-56.  I- Presbyterian Hospital (Denver) ’57-60. General practice in Netherlands 1953-55.  Radiology practice in Grand Forks North Dakota, 1969-66.  Joined Thomas-Davis, retiring in 1992.  PCMS member 1967-2012.

John F. Hemmer MD, neuroradiology, d. Oct. 9.  Med sch. Indiana.  R/F-Michigan.  He practiced with Arizona State Radiology and was on the faculty at the UA College of Medicine.   He was never a PCMS member .

James H. Stephans, psychiatrist, d. Sept. 18.

Anna Mae Kennan RN, received her RN from Moline Hospital Public School of Nursing in 1939, died September 14, age 94

Margaret Nunn Grossetta RN, an Australian pediatric nurse (degree 1943) and war bride, d. Sept. 10.

Vaunette Jeanne Howell RN, known as “Willie” she graduated from St. Francis Nursing College (Evanston IL) in 1945 and worked at TMC and Kino, d. Sept. 19, age 87.

Jeannie Furrer LPN, who worked 30 years at TMC, d. Sept. 8, age 66.

Other:  Patricia Lapan, local philanthropist and mother of Tucson cardiologist David lapan MD, d. in September, age 84.  Carolyn L. Shultz, social worker and wife of M. Lee Shultz MD, d. Sept. 14.

James C. DeSando MD, cardiology, d. in June, age 73.  Med Sch. Georgetown ’64. I/R Grady Memorial (Atlanta) 64-66, Air Force 66-68.  Finished his IM training at Grady, then did his cardiology training at Georgetown. He had served at Davis-Monthan, so he returned to Tucson in 1971 and became an interventional cardiologist.  He closed his office in 1996 because of ill health but did work at rehab centers and helped establish the mobile Disaster Medical Assistance Team in Southern Arizona.  He was a PCMS member, 1971-present.

Wayne M. Heine MD, OB/GYN, d. July 24, age 79.  Med Sch: Duke. I-Med Col of Virginia ’58-59, R-Florida ’59-62.  Research Fellowship, Wooster Mass ’62-63.  Founding OBGYN chair at Texas Tech.  Held academic positions at Florida and Arizona prior to Texas Tech, and returned to Arizona as OBGYN dept chair in 1989. He retired from the position in 1994. He was a PCMS member 1990-2012.

Felix Hurtado MD, pediatrician, d. July 26, age 87. Med sch: Havana, ’46. Finished pediatric training in 1950.  Practiced in Havana with his wife until becoming a refugee in 1961.  Obtained a MPH from Cal in 1968.  Worked for the Indian Health Service in Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona (including Sells).  Never a PCMS member.

Alfredo C. Ramirez MD, psychiatrist, d. August 31, age 66.  Born in Los Angeles, he entered the military during Viet Nam and served as a medic.  Med Sch: Guadalajara. I/R Mt Carmel, Detroit in family practice.  He served as a US Army physician and later took a residency in psychiatry.  He left the military a Lt. Col in 1997 and started practice in Tucson.  PCMS member 1997-2007.

Sylvia C. Levin RN, received her RN from Beth Israel school of nursing and workeds for 17 years as a nurse, died May 3, age 88.

Barbara Bourne RN, a 1956 graduate of St. Luke’s school of nursing (Chicago) who worked as a nurse until just before her death, d. May 25, age 77.

Billie Lee Taylor RN, who was also the head of medical records at TMC in the 1960s, d. June 28, age 87.

Starr B. Springhower LPN, a long time nurse in Tucson, d. June 29, age 70.

Joanna Chester RN, who worked at TMC, UMC, El Rio and Family Hospice Care, d. August 18, age 32.

Violet Mildred Caber RN, a 1943 graduate of the School of Nursing of the Philipsburg State Hospital in Pennsylvania, d. Sept. 1, age 91.

Other: Major Michael Anthony, retired Marine Corps pilot who flew EMS missions here for 10 years, d. June 18, age 53.  Elizabeth Cocoran, mother of Mary Cochran MD, d. June 15, age 89. Bernard J. Friedman, the architect who designed the University of Arizona College of Medicine among other notable buildings in Tucson and Arizona, d. June 21, age 96. Edward Peter Sandquist, County & Kino Community hospitals electrician 1973-1983, d. June 25, age 96. Jeanne Joyce, retired director of cardiac services at TMC. D. August 3, age 82.  Mable Doris Gooden, a member of TMC’s education faculty for 20 years, d. Aug 21, age 87.  Sue Wootton Minter,  widow of David R. Minter MD, d. Aug 19, age 94.

Frederick Alan Kruezer MD, OB/GYN, d. Feb. 25, age 66.  Med sch: Arizona ’71, the first UA UA Collge of Medicine graduating class.  Never a PCMS Member.

Margaret Long RN, a nurse at the VA, d. Feb 11, age 81.

Patsy L. Wood Prater, RN, nurse practitioner in Tucson for 30 years, d. Feb. 9, age 76.

Freda Mae Beezeley, RN, who prior to retiring in Tucson worked as a nurse in Detroit, Honolulu and Florida, d. Feb 14, age 87.

Martha M. Harden, LPN, worked in many states but not Arizona, d. Feb 25.

Margaret Anne File RN, flght nurse who practiced 30 years  and who directed the practical nurse program at Pima Community College for 17 years, d. March 3, age 77.

Audrey Beverly Abbott, RN, was a nurse for 40 years and retired to Tucson in 1977, d. Feb 7, age 98.

Clara “Rusty” Dambach, RN, a nurse serving in Africa and Europe during WW II, she worked in many VA Hospitals, including Tucson, as well as at the Tucson Long Term Care Hospital, d. Feb 25, age 93.

Jay B. Angevine, Jr., PhD, professor emeritus, UA College of Medicine, d. Oct. 18, 2011, age 83. Charter faculty member of the UA College of Medicine.

Other.  Ann Frances Edwards, widow of Henry S. Edwards MD who worked as chief of physical medicine and rehab at the Tucson VA, d. Jan. 13, age 89. Thomas Mercer Brittain PhD, a clinical psychologist with GHMA and Thomas Davis Clinic, died Jan 30, age 72. William Tynan, father of Tucson surgeon Gerlinde Tynan MD, d. Feb 22, age 75.

Raymond Grossman MD, Family Practice, Neurology d. Oct. 17 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease, age 83.  Med sch. Zurich ’58.  I-St. Joseph’s Phoenix ’59.  R. Montreal Neurological Institute ’61, Arizona ’69-71. Practiced in Douglas (he was president of the Cochise County Medical Society 1961-1969) and Tucson. He fully retired in 2004.  PCMS Member 1970-2011.

Myrna F. Alfred, a nurse who graduated from Pima Community College, d. Oct. 8, age 89.    

Lily May Spaulding RN, who worked as a nurse in Vermont, Safford and at TMC and Tucson General, d. Oct. 7, age 90.

Catherine Evon Wierzbicki RN, a nurse in Baltimore, Detroit and Tucson (NW Medical Center and UMC), d. Oct. 26, age 68.

Kristin L. Buyer RN, CCU nurse who met her husband, Richard Buyer MD, when caring for one of his patients, d. recently, age 47.

Other: Therese Freundlich, wife of Irwin Freundlich MD, d. Oct. 10, age 74.  Rolden Heath, pharmacist in Lake Havasu and Tucson (Commonworld), d. Oct 10, age 77.  Margaret Turner Guthkelch, wife of Norman Guthkelch MD, d. Nov. 1.

Hideo Pail Kageyama MD, d. in Tucson Sept. 27.  Seems to have practiced in LA and retired here.

L. Bruce Mills MD, dermatologist who retired to Tucson from Honolulu, died in Palm Springs, August 15.

Arlene J. Cumberland RN, a nurse for 41 years who spent many years in the service and retired a colonel, d. Sept. 8, age 94.    

Mildred M. Van Karsen RN, a nurse for 48 years, d. Sept. 15, age 98

Helen Elizabeth Hadley RN. Who worked at St. Joseph’s for 30 years, d. Aug 23, age 83.

Marjorie Wilson RN, graduated from St. Mary’s Nursing School in Tucson and worked for St. Mary’s and for Dr. Robert Bates, died September 23, age 86.

Evelyn Morris, nurse, who retired here after a career in New Jersey, d. September 30, age 88.

Other: Patricia Anne Henely, medical assistant who fought cancer four times, d. Sept. 20, age 60.  Linda Lea Gerhart, who had a 30-year career in radiology here, d. Sept. 25 age 62.  George Bernard Olsen, UA professor of immunology and microbiology for 24 years, d. September 25, age 79.  Andrew David Guy, founder of Dialysis Foundation of Southern Arizona and the Southwest Kidney Institute, d. September 25, age 76.  Charlotte Pedersen, mother-in-law of PCMS Services Director Bill Fearneyhough, died October 1, age 85.  Pearl Leib, mother of Marc Leib MD, d. October 8, age 84.  The father of Alan Rogers MD died in Texas October 8.

Jack E. Thompson MD, anesthesiology, d. from Alzheimer’s complications July 13, age 85.  Med sch: Marquette. I-Seaside Memorial, Long Beach CA.  R-Lahey Clinic, Boston.  Practiced in Mountain View, CA 42 years.  Never a PCMS member.

Douglas Wegner MD, orthopedic surgeon, died while running in Sabino Canyon, age 53.  MIT engineer before going to medical school at Brown. I/R: Yale.  Fellowship Indiana Hand Center.  Joined faculty at the University of Kentucky for two years before joining Tucson orthopedic Institute in 1997.  Never a PCMS member.

Loren Fritz Taylor MD, anesthesiology, d. from acute leukemia June 9, age 82.  Med sch: Indiana ’55.  Moved to Tucson in 1961.  Graduated from law school here in 1967.  Joined the University of Kansas faculty and worked for HEW.  Moved back to Tucson in 1975 and helped found Old Pueblo Anesthesiology.  PCMS Member 1961-1968, 1974-1992.

Gregorio Samoy MD, pediatrician, d. Aug. 12, age 82.  Med Sch: Manilla Central University ’55.  R-Beth Israel, NYC. F-St. Jude’s, Memphis.  Worked at El Rio 1978-1997.  PCMS Member 1999-2011.

Thomas P. McWilliams, Jr. MD, general practitioner, d. Aug 13, age 91.  Dr. Klein located him in Phoenix, in 1968 at 444 W. Osborn.  There is also an osteopathic physician, Thomas Pryce McWilliams DO,.  Med Sch: Des Moines, ’43, but he would have been 23 when he started practice.  Who ever this doctor was, he is the second of four generations of rural family doctors and practiced until 1985.  Never a PCMS member. 

Findlay Ewing Russell MD, neurosurgeon, toxicologist, d. Aug 21, age 91.  Med sch: Loma Linda ’52.  Started as a neurosurgeon but wounds suffered as a medic on Okinawa soon limited his surgery and he became a world renowned toxicologist.  A Fulbright scholar, he spent the last 15 years in the school of pharmacology at the University of Arizona.  Never a PCMS member.

William Robert Montgomery Houston MD, ophthalmology, d. August 24, age 88.  Med sch: Western Reserve ’48.  I- Methodist Hospital of Brooklyn.  R-New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.  Practiced more than 40 years in Mansfield, Ohio.  Wintered in Tucson.  Never a PCMS member.

Henry Miller MD, Family Practice & Addiction Medicine, d. September 9, age 98.  Med school: Glasgow & Lausange. I- Mary Immaculate, Jamaica NY. US Army, D-Day.  Family medicine in Jamaica.  1987 moved to Santa Fe to practice addiction medicine. Never a PCMS member.

Richard B. O’Grady MD, ophthalmologist and eye surgeon, d. of stroke complications September 8, age 78.  Private practice in Glenview, IL while serving as chief of Eye Pathology at Northwestern and at Loyala-Stritch.  Professor of ocular pathology at the UA College of Medicine for 21 years.  No record of him being a PCMS member.

Norma Husted RN, who worked at the VA in Syracuse NY and retired to Tucson, She died in June 14, age 87. 

Virginia Hockens RN, BSN, who worked as a nurse in the Navy, at Stanford and with ARAMCO in Saudi Arabia, d May 13, age 84.

Juanita Mae Davisson RN, graduate of Mercy Hospital School for Nurses, who worked for St. Luke’s Hospital in Davenport, Iowa.  She moved to Tucson in 1979 after retirement.  He died June 29, age 93.

Susan C. Maish RN, who worked at TMC for 33 years, d. Aug. 3, age 56.

Becky Sue Earwood, nurse who was educated at Cuesta College, d. Aug 3, age 56.

Antoinette M. Findysz, nurse who graduated from St. Elizabeth’s in Chicago, d. Aug 7, age 82.

Rafaela Villanueva Ruiz, nurse who graduated from St. Mary’s school of nursing in Tucson and was selected by the Mayo Bros to work in Rochester, d. Aug 7, are 96.

Mary S. Rugg, a nurse who graduated from St. Mary’s School of Nursing and worked at Thomas Davis as well as a surgical nurse at Good Samaritan, d. Aug. 6, age 98.

Doris Piper White, a nurse who served in World War II, UA Student Health Services, and co-founded Medi-Quik, d. Aug 8, age 88.

Sophie J. Majesky RN, MSN, who worked at St. Mary’s and was the first head surgical nurse at St. Joseph’s, d. Aug. 12, age 89.

Ellen Theresa Miller RN, who worked at Northwest Hospital, d. Aug 2, age 49.

Helen N. Kisthardt RN, d. August 12, age 98.

Dorothy Anna RN, who graduated from St. Vincent’s School of Nursing in 1945 and worked as a public health nurse in Pennsylvania, d. Aug. 13, age 83.

Other: Lt Col. Roy D. Smith, who served in the US Army Nurses Corps, retiring in 1973, d. June 5, age 84.  Ann Fee, a nurse and widow of Wesley Fee MD, d. June 20, age 86.  Billey E. McCarty, wife of Tucson cardiologist Richard J. McCarty MD, d. July 14, age 90.  Barbara Joy Macbeth, widow of L. Craig Macbeth MD, d. July 31, age 85.