Nurse with one arm overcomes odds in Oklahoma City
Colleen Valderrama, a 44 year old nurse at Presbyterian Center for Restorative Care, lives with one arm after bone cancer led to amputation in 1969. She adapted to nursing using a hook prosthesis, later rejected it, and has rebuilt a full life including marriage to Alvaro in 1983 and a career spanning Brazil Peace Corps service and private hospital work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oklahoma City
Colleen Valderrama
Presbyterian Center
Shepherd Mall
Valderrama
Alvaro
Colorado
Hoover Middle School
John Marshall High School
Oklahoma State University
Lois Salmeron
Salmeron
University Hospital
Peace Corps
Brazil
Spain
Venezuela
Tulsa
Presbyterian Hospital
Sabolich Artificial Limb Inc
Colleen Valderrma
Woman who helped homeless found murdered in Fort Worth
Mimi Hunter Fitzgerald 43, once a social work advocate with a Lexu s sedan and a life devoted to the underprivileged, was beaten to death and left on a Fort Worth sidewalk. The case has no leads. witnesses saw her with an unidentified man before her death and her mental illness contributed to her destitute end.
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Fort Worth
Mimi Hunter Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
Austin
la Madeleine
Sharon McLauchlin
Tarrant County
Mental Health Mental Retardation Services
East el Paso Street
Fied
Homicide
Dave Loftis
Loftis
Gini Malone
Malone
Ira Colby
University of Texas At Arlington
Mimi
Colby
Suggs
Eric Niedermayer
MHM
Irma Harrington
UTA
Harrington
la Madeleine Fitzgerald
Tarrant County Department of Human Services
Tarleton State University
Phenville
University of Central Florida
Las Vegas
San Diego
Irma
One Thousand Home Health Agencies Shut Down
State figures show more than 1,000 home health care providers serving Texas have closed since last year’s federal pay cuts under the Balance Budget Act. Dallas Morning News cites owners fearing more bankruptcies without higher payments, as patients risk nursing-home placement if agencies fail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Dallas Morning News
Bill Locklier
Rockwall Home Health Inc
Congress
Joe Barton
Ennis
Barton
Mary Fykes
Glidewell
Medicare
Acosta and Hall Death Notices From Odessa Area
Odessa area notices report the deaths of Eduvires Acosta 75 of Odessa and Dora Jo Hall 78 of Odessa with services in Odessa and Crane Cemetery burial plans. Also listed is Edward L. Reid 68 of Andrews Fort Worth with graveside rites, plus survivors and funeral arrangements.
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Pam Henson
Mansfield
Nancy Rosser
Corinth
Joyce Bird
Fort Worth
Ronnie Reid
Stanley Reid
Brownwood
Wayne Reid
Odessa
Garland R. Hall
David G. Hall
Kuita Jo Hall
Willie M. Neill
Odessa Funeral Notices for Gale Green Jose Acosta Nell Brookshire
Gale Green 65 of Odessa died Sunday Aug 23 1998 at St Luke s Hospital Houston services pending Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home Jose M Acosta 78 of Odessa at Medical Center Hospital Odessa services pending Odessa Funeral Home Nell Brookshire 73 of Odessa at her residence arrangements pending Frank W Wilson
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Dora “Jo
Odessa
Dora “Jo” Hall
Hubbard-Kelly
Sid Driggers
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Little, Oklo
Gale Green
St. Luke’s Hospital
Houston
Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home
Jose Acosta
Jose M. Acosta
Medical Center Hospital
Odessa Funeral Home
Nell Brookshire
Frank W. Wilson
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Texas Tech
Presbyterian Night Shelter
John Suggs
Martin Acosta
Midland
John Acosta
Crane
Josie Valdez
Manuela
Isabel Celaya
Phoenix
Mary Granado
Eduvijis Ramirez
Big Lake
Esperanza Gutierrez
Margarita Gonzalez
Maria Galindo
Marathon
Rita Tavarez
Fort Stockton
Edward Reid Andrews
Edward L. “Ed
Ernest Lynch & Associates
Paula Wyatt
E. 42Nd
Ernest C. EN
Lab
Westwood Wound Care Center
Westwood Medical Center
Andrews Hwy
Texas
Westwood
Wound Care Center
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