Mary Catherine Mattea - Remembered by Dr. Leo Araneta Reyes

Описание: Mary Catherine Mattea was a friend during my General Practice Residency training at Good Samaritan Hospital, Pottsville, PA in 1965 & 1966. We went on our separate ways for further specialty training, never hearing from each other until a friend in 2010 informed me of her passing. I tried to get more information from her brother Ed, a pharmacist in Florida but I never heard from him either.

FromThe Lewiston Tribune
Moscow, Idaho -- The chief nursing officer of Gritman Medical Center, Mary Catherine (Midge) Presol, died of cancer Sunday morning August 22, 1999 at her rural Moscow home. She was 56.

She had been employed by Gritman Medical Center since 1980, starting as the inservice director and later as assistant administrator for patient care services. She also acted as a consultant for Quorum Health Resources.

She was born Aug. 3, 1943, to Joseph and Katherine Kuentz Mattea in Pottsville, Pa. She grew up and attended school there, graduating from high school in Pottsville. She then attended the Sacred Heart School of Nursing at Allentown, Pa., and then the College of Misercordia in Dallas, Pa., graduating with a bachelor's degree in nursing in 1966.

She taught nursing at Sacred Heart Hospital in Allentown for two years.

On June 1, 1968, she married Gary Presol in Pottsville.

They moved to San Francisco, where she served as the education coordinator for Brookside Memorial Hospital in San Pablo, Calif. The family then moved to the Chicago area, where she joined the teaching staff at Purdue University in Indiana.

They moved to Moscow in July 1972, and she joined the nursing staff at the University of Idaho Health Services. During that time she earned a master's degree in education in 1974.

From 1974 to 1977, she was a faculty member with the Idaho State University for 10 northern counties of Idaho for continuing nursing education. Beginning in 1975 and continuing until 1980, she was program coordinator and curriculum consultant for the North Idaho Consortium for Health Education. In 1978, she became an affiliated clinical professor of medical science with the UI WAMI Program.

She has served on the faculty of several university nursing schools. She was a member of several professional organizations.

She was an instructor of courses in basic life support for the Idaho Heart Association from 1984 to 1986 and a member of the Moscow Care Center advisory board, Moscow Junior High School Parents Advisory Group and Moscow Bear Boosters Association.

Survivors include her husband at the family home; two sons, Garrett Presol and Grant Presol, both of Moscow; and a brother, Ed Mattea of Palm Harbor, Fla.

She was preceded in death by a brother, Joe Mattea Jr.