Class Notes 1950-1959 -School of Nursing

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1950

Bette Harris Barto, BSN’50, of Springfield, Massachusetts, passed away December 28, 2022.
Rose Marie Hulse, BSN’50, of Bowie, Texas, passed away in January 2015.
Carlotta Criswell Oliver, BSN’50, of Dallas passed away September 3, 2023.
Connie Carter Sundermann, BSN’50, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away February 14, 2017.
Prudence Stearman Whitlow, N’50, of Hodgenville, Kentucky, passed away April 20, 2017.
1951

Martha Bishop Anderson, BSN’51, of Athens, Georgia, passed away February 3, 2017.
Margaret Lisby Melville, N’51, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away January 3, 2018.
Laura Beatty Rosser, N’51, of Sanford, North Carolina, passed away November 22, 2020.
Eleanor Caslick Scott, BSN’51, of Jackson, Mississippi, passed away April 21, 2017.
Frances Gordon Williams, N’51, of Macon, Georgia, passed away March 12, 2024.
June Robertson Woodard, BSN’51, of Gainesville, Georgia, passed away February 14, 2024.
1952

Martha “Copie” Copeland Likins, BSN’52, of Eureka, California, passed away July 17, 2016.
Shirley Martin, N’52, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away September 21, 2015.
Louise Dunham Milyko, BSN’52, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, passed away October 8, 2022.
Florence Rogers Van Arnam, BSN’52, of Gainesville, Florida, passed away March 5, 2023.
Katherine Oetgen Woods, BSN’52, of Midway, Georgia, passed away April 29, 2016.
1953

Sylvia Farrell Alderson, BSN’53, of Taneytown, Maryland, passed away November 14, 2017.
Ann Demonbreun Charltan, N’53, of Knoxville, Tennessee, passed away May 4, 2018.
Phyllis Hayes Coker, BSN’53, of Henryville, Indiana, passed away February 21, 2017.
Frances Upton Cooper, BSN’53, of Lexington, Kentucky, passed away February 20, 2020.
Frances McGaughy Edwards, BSN’53, MSN’76, was interviewed for the front cover of Tennessee Nurse in 2022 and for the Me and My Friends podcast in 2021, which was featured in Main Street Nashville.
Mary Butts Keil, BSN’53, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, passed away January 28, 2018.
Betty Biddy Maddox, BSN’53, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away October 12, 2019.
Ernestine Nance Newman, BSN’53, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, passed away February 24, 2020.
Emma Hutto Reiss, BSN’53, of New Haven, Connecticut, passed away August 17, 2017.
1954

Myrtice Cooper Demonbreun, BSN’54, of McMinnville, Tennessee, passed away July 9, 2022.
Betty Alford Irby, BSN’54, of Nashville passed away March 5, 2024.
Janie Capps Macey, BSN’54, MSN’74, PhD’85, of Nashville passed away December 25, 2022.
Mary Walley McCoy, BSN’54, of Tampa, Florida, passed away July 18, 2016.
Peggy Lea Murphy, BSN’54, of Kingsport, Tennessee, passed away January 16, 2023.
Ruth Puckett Speirer, BSN’54, of New Orleans passed away November 26, 2019.
1955

Delores Cornelius Bess, BSN’55, of Saint Albans, West Virginia, passed away October 24, 2024.
Evelyn Igarashi Blaylock, BSN’55, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away December 6, 2020. She and her husband, James, BE’59, were featured in Tulsa World in 2015 for celebrating their 60^th wedding anniversary. The couple met on a blind date while attending Vanderbilt University.
Carolyn Woodard Fleet, BSN’55, and her late husband, Bill, were featured in Tennessee’s Franklin Home Page in a 2018 story about how their marriage had lasted for over 60 years.
Edwyna Howard Griscom, BSN’55, of Nashville passed away December 14, 2018.
Liz Buchanan Hauer, BSN’55, MLS’66, of Huntsville, Alabama, passed away June 7, 2019.
Winnie Williams Thomas, BSN’55, of Portland, Oregon, passed away April 14, 2023.
Margaret “Bubs” Pumphrey Tobey, BSN’55, of Roanoke, Virginia, passed away January 20, 2021.
Carol Ammons Vance, BSN’55, of Blowing Rock, North Carolina, passed away August 14, 2018.
1956

Sandy Travis Collier, BSN’56, of Highlands, North Carolina, passed away June 5, 2017.
Charlotte Barnitz Hoelzel, BSN’56, of Benson, Arizona, passed away April 20, 2023.
Jane Carter Kern, BSN’56, of Palatine, Illinois, passed away September 5, 2020.
Ruth Bishop Limehouse, BSN’56, celebrated her 90^th birthday in her hometown of Harleyville, South Carolina, in May 2017.
Kathryn Summer Skinner, BSN’56, of Memphis, Tennessee, passed away December 28, 2022.
Patricia Patterson Tennent, BSN’56, of Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, passed away May 30, 2016.
1957

Janet Krause Buehler, BSN’57, of Bakersfield, California, passed away June 23, 2021.
Mary Reagan Butler, BSN’57, is the president of South County Democratic Club of San Luis Obispo, California (2016).
Judy Cosby Calvert, BSN’57, of The Villages, Florida, passed away November 17, 2024.
Jane Long Crofford, BSN’57, of Melbourne, Arkansas, passed away August 16, 2024.
Sally Clark Green, N’57, of Mobile, Alabama, passed away February 26, 2017.
Mary Sue Miller Heldman, BS’55 (Peabody), N’57, of Nashville passed away May 4, 2016.
Wilma June Putman Kaufman, N’57, of Ozark, Missouri, passed away October 4, 2017.
Marian Giese Miles, BSN’57, of Brentwood, Tennessee, passed away June 7, 2024.
Sandy Griffin Minor, BSN’57, retired from the faculty of Murray State University in Kentucky in 2016 at age 81, and was featured on KFVS-TV and KYForward and in the West Kentucky Star.
Carolyn McKelvey Moore, BSN’57, MSN’59, retired in 2010 as senior vice president for institutional advancement for Sparks Health System in Fort Smith, Arkansas, to become a nursing education and philanthropy consultant for two-year colleges.
Kitty Temple Silverman, BSN’57, of Spartanburg, South Carolina, passed away December 18, 2020.
1958

Judith James Coleman, N’58, of Lebanon and Franklin, Tennessee, passed away July 21, 2020.
Susan Hurley DeConcini, N’58, of McLean, Virginia, passed away April 29, 2016.
Anita Raines Elliott, BSN’58, of Madison, Tennessee, passed away February 9, 2021.
Belma Wallace Keaton, BSN’58, Franklin, Tennessee, passed away October 12, 2023.
Lynn Hill Lester, BSN’58, of Lebanon, Tennessee, passed away August 18, 2024. She was honored as the VUSN Founder’s Medalist at her graduation.
Sandra Chachere McGrew, N’58, of Lakeway, Texas, passed away September 29, 2022.
Erna McAninch Pelok, N’58, of Wauseon, Ohio, passed away July 14, 2017.
Margie Mayo Poore, N’58, of Union, Kentucky, passed away April 18 2017.
1959

Connie McKay Adams, BSN’59, of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, passed away May 29, 2021.
Kathleen Gainor Andreoli, MSN’59, of Chicago passed away August 3, 2022. She received the Distinguished Alumna Award from the VUSN Alumni Association in 1984.
Bonnie Weaver Battey, MSN’59, was listed in Marquis Who’s Who in 2018.
Jo Ann Faulkner Davis, N’59, of Hixson, Tennessee, passed away December 17, 2020.
Gwen Lapham Efird, BSN’59, of Little Rock, Arkansas, passed away June 24, 2022.
Shirley Carmichael Feese, BSN’59, of Maysville, Kentucky, passed away in November 2015.
Carol Ann Day Hempfner, BSN’59, of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, passed away December 8, 2023.
Barbara Kiel Kaley, N’59, of Palm Desert, California, passed away August 3, 2016.
Carolyn McKelvey Moore, BSN’57, MSN’59, retired in 2010 as senior vice president for institutional advancement for Sparks Health System in Fort Smith, Arkansas, and become a nursing education and philanthropy consultant for two-year colleges.
Charlotte Beasley Northrop, N’59, of Athens, Georgia, passed away March 21, 2023.
Emily Johnson Smith, BSN’59, of Nashville passed away October 27, 2024.
Jane Bradford Tobiason, BSN’59, of Phoenix passed away January 23, 2023.
Ann Wheeler Wagner, BSN’59, of Hillsboro, Illinois, passed away August 3, 2020.