The Nightingale Tribute was developed by the Kansas Nursing Association in 2003 for recently departed nurses. The following document contains the instructions for the beautiful service along with a poem, “She Was There.” It is encouraged to adapt the service and wording of the poem to fit the nurse being honored. Please click here for the Nightingale Tribute Pamphlet

Florence Nightingale

Make a Donation

As part of the Nightingale Tribute, you may wish to make a donation on behalf of the departed nurse to the Nurses Foundation of Wisconsin. The foundation uses the donations to support nursing education and research and enhance nursing’s impact on health care.

You may share the following links with those who wish to submit a nurse’s name and/or donate to NFW

Nightingale Tribute Names:

The following names are listed in alphabetical order.

Recognition – 2023 Nightingale Tribute

Ruth (Bartelt) Hess

Heidi Hoehnen

Lorraine Millich

Recognition – 2022 Nightingale Tribute

Michelle Chiaro

Gabriel Cotto

Marcella Dietzman

Kathryn Johnson

Judith Krolikowski

Janice LaDue

Jean Lange

Mary Lindner

Nancy Maynard

Patricia Jane McKendry

Joyce J. Milosch

Bonnie Nagler

Mary Nick

Johannah Pascoe

Aleyamma Thomas

Janet Weaver

Cheryl Weber

Natalie Witte

2021 Fallen Nurses

Rebeka Lynn Arndt

Debra Arnett

Marilyn Beck

Marilyn Berwick

Rachel C. Buelow

Cheryl Canode

Jacque Clinton

Barbara J. Connell

Rex Dulay

Roma Erickson

Kay Engelhardt

Marny Lou Feulner

Francis Marion Fischbach

Craig Funke

Susan Gies

Valery Fay Harper

Barbara Ann Heighway

Carol Ann Hirte

Karen Mary Johnson

Erika Kappes

Dale Keenan

Joyce M Kneeland

Kathy Link

Barbara Mac Briar

Rita Madden

Judith Kay Nelson

Carol Ellen Patterson

Jane Stuart Paxton

Sue Ann Petry

Gene Richter

Mary Jo Runnoe

Pamela Macari Sandberg – Past WNA President

Norma E. Scherrer

Marilyn Scheufele

Mary Sinnen

Cathy Ann Skrepenski

Doris Ann Hebert Small

Kit Stevic

Caroline Sullivan

Marsha Tyacke

Donna Warzynski – Past WNA President

Christina Hoffman White

Lisa Ann Young-Borkowski

Mary Elizabeth Yuhas

Beverly Zabler

2020 Fallen Nurses

Erlinda Ann Arguello

Julie M. Baeten

Susan Bellin

Rosemary Bonniewell

Toni Marie Bouwnam

Patricia Mary Campbell

Margaret G. Conners

Catherine Douglas

Maureen Beverly Duszynski

Dolores DuPont

Ina L. Wasberg Fenske

Ruth Ann Gresley

Alma Hekel Haglund

Debra Jean Hansen

Marion Ann Henderson

Ruth A. Williams Hoefakker

Arthur Le Roy Jennings

Mary Klemme

Mary ‘Theresa’ Kloehn

Margaret Felhofer Kirley

Louise Lieske

Betty Louise Mattson

Sandra Millard

James Mikolajczak-LaRosa

Verna O’Connell

Kelly Raehter (Passed of COVID)

Patricia Ann Reivhelsdorfer

James La Rosa (Passed of COVID)

Julie Schmitt

Kathryn “Tina” Schuster

Patricia Kathryn Steininger

Carol Strupp

Lisa M. Summers

Mary K. Ulschmid

Julie Elise Van Puffelen

Barbara L. Watson

Norma Coleen Wiedenhoeft

Ursula Theresa Wirtz

Edith Wolfram

2019 Fallen Nurses

Carlie Beaudin

Toni Marie Bouwman

Margaret G. Conners

Patricia (Pat) FinderStone

Ruth Ann Gresley

Patricia (Patsy) Jane Kohler

Wanda Marie Nye

Karen O’Brien

Julie Elise Can Puffelen

Patricia Ann Reichelsdorfer

Julie Schmitt

Lisa Summers

Please click here for a list of Fallen Nurses from 2018 and Earlier