In memoriam

February 20, 2023

Honoring alumni we have lost

an illustration of a purple orchid on a blue background

1940s

Cornelia K. Barron (B.S.’46/N) of Dublin, Ohio, March 3, 2022.
Margaret S. Berkley (Cert.’42/N)
of Springfield, Va., Nov. 26, 2021.
Louauna S. Byrd (Cert.’48/N)
of Virginia Beach, Va., Oct. 7, 2021.
Katherine W. Crouch (B.S.’45/N)
of Mechanicsville, Va., Sept. 10, 2021.
Ann Steigleder (B.S.’48/N)
of Farnham, Va., Aug. 10, 2022.
Eleanor P. Tate (B.S.’49/N)
of Hertford, N.C., Jan. 31, 2022.

1950s

Barbara H. Brock (B.S.’50/N) of Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 4, 2021.
Ramona S. Friend (B.S.’57/N)
of North Garden, Va., Aug. 20, 2022.
June P. Gwynn (B.S.’53/N)
of Yanceyville, N.C., Nov. 19, 2021.
Mildred A. Hopkins (B.S.’53/N)
of Roanoke, Va., March 19, 2022.
Margaret L. Lefebvre (B.S.’54/N)
of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Jan. 28, 2022.
Louise W. McConnell (B.S.’54/N)
of Richmond, Va., Oct. 29, 2022.
Marian B. Neese (B.S.’50/N)
of Raleigh, N.C., Oct. 10, 2022.
Ann M. Robertson (B.S.’51/N)
of Lynchburg, Va., Dec. 27, 2021.
Dorothy M. Shepard (B.S.’57/N)
of North Chesterfield, Va., March 20, 2022.
Doris W. Smith (B.S.’55/N)
of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., Oct. 9, 2021.
Shirley A. Steel (B.S.’57/N)
of Lutherville Timonium, Md., Dec. 24, 2021. 

1960s

Judith H. Barton (B.S.’61/N) of Fredericksburg, Va., May 25, 2022.
Joan M. Bloomer (A.S.’61/N)
of Richmond, Va., June 20, 2022.
Carole S. Morehead (B.S.’64/N)
of Banco, Va., Oct. 14, 2021.
Elaine P. Norwood (Cert.’60/N)
of Chapel Hill, N.C., Jan. 24, 2022.
Joy T. Texter (B.S.’67/N; M.S.’75/N)
of Henrico, Va., July 27, 2022.

1970s

Bonnie C. Baldwin (B.S.’72/N) of Gulfport, Fla., April 22, 2022.
Bettie W. Brady (B.S.’76/N)
of Ashland, Va., Aug. 1, 2022.
Deborah J. Denney (B.S.’73/N; M.S.W.’86/SW)
of Henrico, Va., May 12, 2022.
Patricia W. Holloway (B.S.’77/N)
of Manassas, Va., Sept. 9, 2022.
Betty G. Kenley (Cert.’70/N)
of Mechanicsville, Va., May 31, 2022.
Jacqueline R. Rowland (B.S.’76/N; M.S.’78/N)
of Henrico, Va., March 14, 2022.
Emily M. Thomas (’76/N; B.S.’78/N)
of Columbia, S.C., Oct. 10, 2021.

1980s

Daniel J. Arbogast (B.S.’85/N; Cert.’93/B) of Roanoke, Va., Oct. 3, 2022. 
Mildred L. Friedman (M.S.’88/N)
of Wytheville, Va., June 13, 2022.
Irene M. Gray (B.S.’80/N)
of New Kent, Va., Jan. 25, 2022.
Jewel D. Hill (B.S.’88/N)
 of Petersburg, Va., Oct. 9, 2022.
Judith T. Rocchiccioli, Ph.D. (B.S.’81/N; Ph.D.’93/E)
 of Beaverdam, Va., Dec. 6, 2021.
Bolling Q. Scott (B.S.’84/N)
of Midlothian, Va., April 1, 2022.

1990s

Kathleen H. Bredberg (B.S.’93/N) of Sherman, Tx., Aug. 31, 2022.
Dana E. Brickey (B.S.’94/N)
of Coeburn, Va., Jan. 12, 2022.
Kathleen L. Cox (Ph.D.’97/N)
of Zion Crossroads, Va., Sept. 26, 2022.
Stuart Eisenberg (M.S.’96/N)
of North Chesterfield, Va., June 7, 2022.
Mary P. Nothnagle Johnson (M.S.’95/N)
of Norfolk, Va., Oct. 21, 2021.
Sandra D. Yehiel (B.S.’94/N)
of South Hill, Va., October 4, 2022.

Ann Steigleder

Ann Steigleder, a member of the Class of 1948 and a surgical nursing instructor at the School of Nursing from 1955 to 1965, passed away in August. As a faculty member under the leadership of Doris Yingling, dean of the school from 1958-1981, Steigleder helped shape the curriculum for a graduate program for nurses, the first in Virginia. She championed nursing education as part of a team-oriented integrated patient experience–a novel approach for that time. Former students remember her unconventional and progressive teaching style, with many noting her insistence for critical thinking and clinical reasoning as the foundation for their later success. With a bequest made at her passing, she established the Steigleder Endowed Chair for Research in the VCU School of Nursing, continuing her lifelong commitment to nursing research and leading change.