Colorado Nurse - August 2022

8 • Colorado Nurse | August 2022
The Official Publication of the Colorado Nurses Foundation in partnership with the Colorado Nurses Association
In Memory
Eve Cook Hoygaard, MS,RN, WHNP
If you are a nurse who has read previous issues
of the Colorado Nurse, you have probably read this
column about nurses who have passed away that
you have worked with or otherwise known at some
time in your career. Did you wonder how we knew
about these losses? We depend upon receiving
from families and friends of these departed nurses.
We depend on other people... like you!
Our criteria for information to be included
requires it being about a RN or an LPN who has been
educated in, lived in and/or worked in Colorado plus
the date and, if available, of where they lived at the
time they passed away. We appreciate provision of
additional information as to where and when they
received their nursing education, degree(s), age,
where they were employed, special awards (such
as being a Nightingale Award or nominee) are
examples we consider including.
We Remember
Amey, Lynne, RN (73) passed away in
Lakewood CO on March 31, 2022. She moved
from Wisconsin to Colorado. She was a 1998
graduate of Front Range Community College
School of Nursing and worked at Hospice of St
John’s in Lakewood for nine years.
Gallagher, Constance Christianson, RN
passed away in 2022. Born in Budapest, Hungary
in 1935, she survived WWII (NAZI occupation and
a Soviet work camp.) She moved to Colorado in
1957 where she worked at the University Hospital
in Denver, Boulder Community Hospital and for
the American Diabetic Association.
Green, Barbara Brailsford, RN passed away
on May 28,2022. She was a graduate of Mercy
Medical Center SON in Philadelphia. Her 50 years
of Nursing practice included a variety of areas in
New York and Colorado.
Gross, Janet Barker, RN (69) passed away
in Lone Tree, CO on June 4, 2022. A graduate
of Youngstown State University with a degree in
Teaching and a Nursing degree from Kent State
University. She was an RN for 30 years.
Kruse, Helen RN (96) passed away in April 2022
in Aurora. She was a graduate of St Joseph’s Nursing
School in Concordia, KS. She worked as a nurse in
Kansas, Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska and Colorado.
She lived in Aurora, CO for many years.
Negri, Jennie Stella, RN, (96) passed away
in April 2022 in Wheat Ridge, CO. She was born in
1926 and graduated from the Nursing Program at
St Anthony’s Hospital, Denver in 1947. She later
attended a post-graduate program at Margaret
Hague Maternity Hospital in New Jersey. She was a
Head Nurse in Obstetrics at St Anthony’s.
Neid, Darlene Helen, RN (78), a graduate of
Abbott Hospital School of Nursing in Minneapolis
in 1964. She received a B.S. in Education from the
University of Nebraska in 1988. Her career included
both Nursing (Abbott, Lincoln General, St. Elizabeth’s
and Nebraska Methodist Hospitals) in addition, she
did teach (part-time) in Lincoln Public Schools.
Shaw, Karen Newberry RN (79) passed away
in April 2022. She was a 1965 graduate of Johns
Hopkins Hospital School of Nursing and in 1979
received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology at the University
of Colorado. She worked in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt
University Hospital. She moved to Switzerland in
1971 and in 1981 she moved to Colorado where she
worked at Porter Adventist Hospital in Denver until
her retirement in 2002.
Smith, Ann Noordenbos, PhD, RN (81) passed
away in Boulder, CO, April 29, 2022. She was born
in New Jersey where she received her early nursing
education. After moving to Colorado she earned her
BSN in 1964, MSN in 1965 and PhD at the University
of Colorado. She was one of the first graduates in
the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program created
at the University of Colorado in 1966. Her career at
the University of Colorado included faculty member
in that program, and Director of the Continuing
Education Program at CU School of Nursing. There,
she was involved in a number of innovative programs.
In 2015, she was awarded the CU College of Nursing
Alumni Distinguished Service Award. She was active
in nursing charitable organizations and was a Lifetime
member of the Friends of Nursing.
Young, Mary Jo Leonard Young RN (86)
passed away in June 2022. She received a Diploma
Program at St. Rita’s SON in Lima, OH. In 1958 she
joined the Navy Nurse Corps. While in the Navy
Nurse Corps, she completed a BSN at the University
of Colorado School of Nursing and a Masters Degree
in Higher Education at George Washington University.
When she retired from the USN in 1984, she was
the Director of Nursing at the Charleston Navy
Hospital. She was a member of the Navy Nurse Corps
Association and many volunteer organizations.
We reserve the right to edit material submitted
and endeavor to verify all information included in this
column. If you notice an error, please advise us and a
correction will be published in the next available issue.
We always appreciate our readers assistance with
providing information for this column. Please submit
the information to Eve Hoygaard at hoygaard@msn.
com or CNF@civicamanagement.zendesk.com. If
you would like to donate to the Colorado Nurses
Foundation Scholarship Fund in honor of a departed
nurse or to honor a nurse friend or colleague, there are
several options. To donate by check, send to Colorado
Nurses Foundation, P.O. Box 3406, Englewood, CO
80155. For credit card donations, please visit the
ColoradoNursesFoundation.com/donate Questions:
CNF@civicamanagement.zendesk.com
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