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.

Richard L. Field MD, GP, Radiology, d. May 21, age 80.  Med sch: Tufts ’59.  I-Dartmouth.  Private practice in Maine 1962-1969.  Radiology internship and practiced in Maine until 1984.  Moved to Tucson in 1992.  Never a PCMS member.

Eleanor Schroff RN, obtained her RN in 1942 and came to Tucson in 1951.  She worked at St. Mary’s for 25 years and retired in 1986.  She died in May, age 90 or 91. 

Patricia Wagner RN, obtained her RN from St. Agnes School of Nursing (Fond du Lac, WI) and worked at St. Mary’s and TMC, d. May 9, age 94.

Eleanor Hanson RN, graduate of Kansas Wesleyan in nursing, she came to Tucson in 1967 and began work at Devon Gables and retired in 1989 as director of nursing, d. May 9 of cancer, age 74.

Doris Elaine Johnson LPN, d. May 9, age 81. 

Margaret Lohse Henry RN, Capt Army Nurse Corps 1941-1946 and moved to Tucson soon thereafter, d. May 11, age 96.

Olga H. Jordan RN, d. in Peoria, AZ May 9, age 98.

Linda Peart Sullenger RN, operating room nurse all over the US and Saudi Arabia, d. May 21, age 68.

Mary Anne (Dolly) Burr RN, flight nurse in WWII and married to Sherwood Burr MD, d. May 28, age 93.

Lucille B. Hayes RN, a resident of Tucson since 1978, d. May 31, age 77.

Joyce Aline Myers RN, who spent her career in pediatrics, d. June 7, age 72

Other: Julie Ann Fernando, physical therapist and daughter of Manuel Fernando MD, d. May 1, age 48.   Esther de la Torre Elias, mother of Laura Elias de la Torre MD, d. May 20.  Jean Ann Cipriani, administrative director UMC pathology department for 25 years, d. May 18.  Alice Tweed Peak DDS, one of two women dentists serving in the military during WWII, d. April 25, age 90.  Alexandra Kollar Schorsch, daughter of Edward Kollar MD and wife of John Schorsch MD, d. May 7, age 60. 

Samuel R. Joseph MD, surgery, d. May 2, age 85.  He decided to become a physician while serving as a Seabee during World War II.  He used the GI Bill to attend Ohio University and St. Louis School of Medicine.  I/R St Louis City Hospital.  He came to Tucson in 1961 and began work as chief of surgery at the old county hospital.  Member 1961-1989.

Esther Lopez Foust LPN, graduate of St. Mary’s School of Nursing worked at Pima County Hospital for 20 years, d. April 8, age 87.

Oran James (Jim) Burris Jr, scrub nurse at St. Mary’s for 17 years, d. April 12, age 78.

Edna R. Hoffman RN, obtained her RN from Baylor; worked in Phoenix hospitals and as a police nurse until she became a police officer, becoming a sergeant in charge of the sex crimes unit; retired in Tucson in 1988 and d. April 15, age 87.

Kathleen Goggins, who moved to Tucson from Minnesota at age 17 to attend and graduate from St. Mary’s School of Nursing, d. April 23, age 73.

Mary Beth Medo RN, Air Force nurse who retired a Lt. Col., died April 26, age 57.

Lois Baun, pharmacist, d. in May, age 89.  Graduated from University of South Dakota in 1943.  Practiced and taught pharmacy until 1950, married, had children.  She and her husband opened a pharmacy in 1956.  She moved to Tucson and worked as a pharmacist at the University, retiring in 1983.

Other: William Louis Orient, father of Jane Orient MD, died on his 90th birthday, 4/29/11. Sue Eazer, mother of Center for Neurosciences CEO Ted Eazer, d. April 24, age 81.  Marguerite Labau Houston, wife of William Houston MD, d. April 24, age 78.

John B. Powell MD, Tucson based anesthesiologist, d. Feb 26, age 77. Med schl: Missouri.  I-Salt Lake.  R-Missouri.  Worked with Associated Anesthesiologists and at Kino Hospital.  PCMS member.

Hubert “Hub” E. Wuesthoff MD, psychiatrist, d. March 26, age 89.  Practiced in Tucson for 21 years after an Air Force Career (he retired as a Col.).  PCMS member.

Rupert H. Friday MD, OB/GYN, d. March 16 from stroke complications, age 98.  Med sch: Pittsburgh.  I/R Mercy Hosp, Temple.  Practiced in Pittsburgh where he was president of the OB/GYN society.  Never a PCMS member.

Elizabeth Sullivan RN, who had a career in nursing in Massachusetts (Tewksbury State Hospital), d. Jan 26, age 83.

Doris Ann Grayland RN, BSN & MSN, school nurse in the Sunnyside District, d. Feb 22, age 81.

Other:  Lily Theimine Meyer, widow of Sherman Meyer DO who worked in Phoenix and Parker, d. Feb. 26, age 101.  George Charles McNeill, chief technologist and manager of Nuclear Medicine at University Medical Center for 30 years, d. Feb. 20, age 75.  Helen Zschech, for 16 years a full-time worked with the Red Cross and for nine years secretary and bookkeeper to Hollis Brainard MD, d. Feb. 28, age 83.  Ruth Helen Eile, mother of Connecticut physician Peter Byeff MD, d. April 6. Anna Barbara Claypool, widow of Tucson radiologist Harry Claypool, d. Feb 21, age 87.  Marcia Burstein, sister of David Ben-Asher MD and a Tucson resident since 1952, d. Feb 10, age 86.  Michael J. Harris, administrator with St. Joseph’s and Tucson General hospitals, d. March 24, age 72.  Bertram Jerman, father of Michael Jerman MD and father-in-law of Keith Kaback MD, d. March 30, age 93.  Lily Weich, mother of Martin Weich MD and mother-in-law of Ron Kolker MD, died March 24, age 94.

Gerald I. Zattuchini MD, d. Feb. 12. Med Sch: Temple.  Professor of OB/GYN Northwestern.  Never a member.

Nancy Joy Reinhardt RN, graduate of Tucson High who played in both the Badger and UA marching bands and who graduated from Mercy College of Nursing in San Diego and worked as nurse for decades, d. Jan 6, age 70.

Eleanor Snow RN, Hospital and physician nurse in New Jersey who retired to Oro Valley, d. Feb. 13, age 78.

Elaine Judith Smelkinson RN, who graduated form high school at age 16 and worked as a nurse and a psychiatric nurse, d. Feb. 23, age 71.

Willis Fankhauser, pharmacist, d. Feb 6, age 91.  Graduate of the University of Kansas School of Pharmacy in 1942, he served in the US Army Medical Corps.  Operated a pharmacy in Lyons KS 1946-1977.  Retired to Green Valley.

Other:  Michael J. Carillo, electroencephalographic tech at the VA, d. Feb 11, age 67. L’Tonya Washington, South Tucson paramedic and EMT, d. Feb. 19, age 52.



Balz Isler MD, orthopedic surgeon at Thomas Davis, Tucson Clinic, d. in Zurich of pancreatic cancer (source: Dr. Sidi).  He did an internship and residency at THMEP from 1973-1976.

Ave June Wolfe MD,  pediatrician who lived in Tucson 1978-2006.  Never a member.

Graydon Randolph Forrer MD, psychiatrist and father of  neurologist Scott Forrer MD, d. Jan. 17, age 86.  Med sch: Michigan ’49.  USPHS and training in psychiatry.  Practiced in Flint, Michigan 1955-1987.  Moved to Anchorage and practiced 1987-1998, when he moved to Tucson.  Never a PCMS member.

Nancy Joy Reinhardt RN, graduate of Tucson High who played in both the Badger and UA marching bands and who graduated from Mercy College of Nursing in San Diego and worked as nurse for decades, d. Jan 6, age 70.

Beatrice Smith RN, graduate of St. Mary’s School of Nursing in Spokane, d. Jan. 11, age 95.

Sara T. Friedman RN, wife of neurologist Arnold Friedman MD who worked as a nurse in the Pacific Northwest, Boston and New York state, d. Jan 10, age 99.

Patricia Bukowski Smith RN, moved to Tucson in 1973 and worked at Posada del Sol and TMC and co-founded Home and Hospital Services of Tucson.  She died Jan. 14, age 72.

Patricia Anne Walsh RN, graduate of Alfred University (NY) who worked as a public health nurse in Santa Cruz County and in OB?GYN and oncology at UMC, d. Jan. 24, age 86.

Edith Barbour Lauver RN, former head of nursing at Pima County and Kino hospitals, d. Jan 14 of COPD, age 77.

Other:  Gabe Zimmerman, aide to Rep. Gabby Giffords and who helped constituents get VA and Medicare help as well as worked on health policy and is the step-son of Pamela Golden MD, d. Jan 8 in a mass shooting, age 30.  Sandi Strachen, an original staff member of the Pima Community Access Program who was in charge of the physician network, died suddenly December 21, age 65.

G. Arthur Anderson MD, OB/GYN, d. Dec 1, age 86.  Med sch Nebraska ’47. I/R Nebraska.  1951-1953 chief of OB at Davis Monthan.  Private practice Tacoma, then moved to Tucson in 1954, opening an office at 754 N. Country Club.  Retired 1988.  PCMS Member 1954-2010.

Robert C. Lloyd MD, OB/GYN, d. Dec. 12, age 76.  Med Sch Kansas ’60. I/R Kansas.  Moved here in 1966 and joined Thomas Davis Clinic and spent his career there. PCMS member 1966-1996.

DeArmond Lindes MD, general practice, biomedical engineering, d. Nov. 15, age 90.  Med sch Jefferson ’46. I: Frankford Hosp Philadelphia.  Post grad: UA Dept of Chemistry and radioisotopes, ultrasound.  Served as secretary-treasurer Apache County Medical Society.  Practiced at 700 N. Country Club.  Joined Air Force in 1975, retired from Air Force in 1980.  Went to Navajo Nation and El Rio, retiring in 1984.  Member off and on 1963-present.

Anna Marie Kaiser RN, graduate of Finley Hospital school of nursing in Dubuque (1939) and worked as a visiting nurse as well as supervisor of nurses in Dubuque schools, d. Nov. 12, 2010, age 92. 

Anna Elizabeth O’Leary RN, nurse and nurse anesthetist with private institutions, the US Navy and the Tucson VA, d. Dec. 2, age 87.

Connie “Concha” Molina RN, graduate of St. Mary’s nursing school and a surgery nurse at St. Mary’s for 21 years, d. December 7, age 90.

Renaye “Ricki” Lehman, patient instructor for second year medical students at the college of medicine, d. Dec. 13, age 81.

Lolita L. May RN, graduate of Marquette School of Nursing who worked at American Motors and the US Post Office, d. Nov. 27, age 88.

Gloria Yolanda Marino RN, worked at UMC and on the Tohono O’Odham reservation, d. Dec. 11, age 87.

Bernadine H. Armstrong RN.  A Lt. Col, she enlisted as an Army nurse at the start of World War II and served on the hospital ship John H. Meany as a surgical nurse.  She joined the air force, and served in Korea.  After retirement she worked at DM.  She died Jan. 3, age 98.

Norma Gibbons Anderson, PharmD, one of the first women graduates of the UA College of Pharmacy, d. nov. 24, age 80.  Her career was in Flagstaff.  She was born in Tucson and was a tri-delt at the UA.

Other:  Twyla Hauser, surgical tray supervisor for 17 years in Fallbrook, CA, d. Nov. 10, 2010, age 77.    Abbie D. Kitt, widow of Stanley Kitt MD, d. Nov. 15, age 92.  Janet Anita Nestor, wife of Jack Nestor MD, d. Dec. 1, age 78.  Deborah Winn Debruin, certified nursing assistant for 20 years in Illinois, d. December 1, age 61.  Mary Bynum, mother of Kathleen Bynum DO, d. Dec. 2, age 75.  Louise T. Casanova, first Pima County Emergency Services Coordinator and leader in paramedic and EMT legislation as well as a founder of the trauma system in Tucson, d. Dec. 3, age 77.  Marjory Merrell Allen, widow of William B. Allen MD, d. Dec. 9, age 96.  Carol Louise Sieber, widow of Otto Sieber MD, d. Dec. 31, age 78.  Larry Cronin MD’s father died in January.



Rose Chacko, psychiatrist in India and Australia, d. in Tucson October 19, age 84.

Thomas E. Curran, III, MD, d. October 20.

Gerald Nathenson MD, d. October 20, age 78.  Served as a medical officer at DM and retired to Tucson after a career as professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Anthony B. Yang MD, d. Oct. 24, age 86.  Medical degree from the Philippines; practiced in Canada, California and 13 years in Superior, Arizona.

David M. McCollum DO, d. Oct. 29, age 84.  GP, anesthesia – practiced briefly at Mesa General (chief of staff) but spent the majority of his career in Indiana, where he was president of the Indiana Osteopathic physicians and surgeons.  Retired to Oro Valley.

Lenore Fogarty RN, graduate of St. Mary’s school of nursing at the Mayo Clinic (1948) and nursing veteran at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago, d. Aug. 18, age 84.

Margaret Neill RN, d. Oct. 22, age 63.  Ended her career working at St. Mary’s Hospital in Tucson.

Nilo V. Gomez MD, radiology, d. Oct. 16, age 70.  He practiced in Tucson 1990-1997 and was a PCMS member at that time.

Other:  Jay Spencer Angevine, son of pioneer UA College of Medicine faculty member Jay Angevine, d. Sept. 25, age 56.  Virginia Ayers, Tucson General Hospital EKG and Echo tech, d. Sept. 13, age 75.  Alma Ecke, lab tech in the 1940s through 1961 and worked for Drs. Fosdick and Farness, d. Oct. 14, age 88. Jean M. Hartman, healthcare/medical records consultant, d. Oct. 26.  Mildred Hancock, mother of Virgil Hancock MD, d. Sept. 19, age 90.  Lorraine Tansey, dietician at the Tucson VA, d. Oct. 25.