IN MEMORY

The following is obituary information provided to the School of Nursing:

Gloria Elizabeth Krueger, BS 1998 (obituary is courtesy the Oregonian)

A funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, 2002, in Twin Rocks Friends Camp in Rockaway Beach for Gloria Elizabeth Krueger, who died Sept. 17 in an automobile accident at age 30.

Miss Krueger was born Sept. 2, 1972, in Portland. She graduated from Gresham High School and George Fox College and received a bachelor's degree from Oregon Health & Science University at Southern Oregon University. She was a registered nurse for Jackson County, Multnomah County Educational Service District and most recently the Salem-Keiser School District. In 1995, she was a missionary to Haiti. She was involved in the camp for 22 years as a camper, counselor, volunteer nurse and camp director.

Survivors include her parents, Bill and Penny; brothers, Casey, Joe and Matt; and grandmother, Pauline Zullo.

Remembrances to Twin Rocks Friends Camp. Arrangements by Bateman-Carroll.

Karen L. (Vuylsteke) Ballard, Class of 1976
Died, January 5, 2002

The following is an excerpt from Mrs. Ballard's husband, Douglas D. Ballard:

"Karen was a transfer from Oregon State University with the class that entered in 1972. We were married in July 1974 after she had finished competing in the 1974 Miss Oregon Pageant. She came back to Quantico, VA with me until the start of the fall 1974 term. She returned to the nursing school, but then took the winter 1975 term off to stay with me until I finished my school in Quantico. She then returned to Oregon while I completed artillery school. She finished all her classes at the end of July 1975, but the one term off in the winter pushed her back to the class of 1976 as her official graduating class. She did not attend the graduation exercises in1976 because we were stationed in Hawaii and could not get back to Oregon.

I found out after her death that she had been involved in the mid-late 1980s in assisting with the critical training of sophomore students from the Nursing School. She was working at St. Vincent Hospital as a cardiac nurse. The professor from the Nursing School told me that Karen was her contact at the hospital for that clinical experience as well as one of the instructors/mentors. She said that her reputation was such that the students hoped to get Karen for that clinical rotation, because she was a good teacher and she treated the students as professionals. She continued with that (as well as being a preceptor for the new nurses at the hospital) until her multiple sclerosis (MS) forced her to retire in October 1990."

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