Betty Jane Weiland, 86, of Conneaut, Ohio, formerly of Conneaut Lake, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, at the Inn-Conneaut Health Center, Conneaut, Ohio.
She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Collingsburg, a daughter of Arthur W. and Elizabeth Beaman Backstrom. She married Robert J. Weiland Sr. April 21, 1945. He preceded her in death May 21, 2005.
She was a member of Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church of Conneaut Lake and was involved with its Rosary Society. She was a very helping hand in her community, church and neighborhood.
During World War II, she worked as a registered nurse at U.S. Steel in McKeesport, PA and at McKeesport Hospital.
After moving to Conneaut Lake in 1946 with her husband, she worked at the former Spencer Hospital now Meadville Medical Center in various capacities during her 38 years of employment there including teaching nursing students, assisting with operating the hospital's first intensive care unit and as head nurse in the recovery room prior to her retirement. She also worked as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1951.
Interment in Our Lady Queen of the Americas Cemetery.
She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Collingsburg, a daughter of Arthur W. and Elizabeth Beaman Backstrom. She married Robert J. Weiland Sr. April 21, 1945. He preceded her in death May 21, 2005.
She was a member of Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church of Conneaut Lake and was involved with its Rosary Society. She was a very helping hand in her community, church and neighborhood.
During World War II, she worked as a registered nurse at U.S. Steel in McKeesport, PA and at McKeesport Hospital.
After moving to Conneaut Lake in 1946 with her husband, she worked at the former Spencer Hospital now Meadville Medical Center in various capacities during her 38 years of employment there including teaching nursing students, assisting with operating the hospital's first intensive care unit and as head nurse in the recovery room prior to her retirement. She also worked as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1951.
Interment in Our Lady Queen of the Americas Cemetery.
Betty Jane Weiland, 86, of Conneaut, Ohio, formerly of Conneaut Lake, died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2008, at the Inn-Conneaut Health Center, Conneaut, Ohio.
She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Collingsburg, a daughter of Arthur W. and Elizabeth Beaman Backstrom. She married Robert J. Weiland Sr. April 21, 1945. He preceded her in death May 21, 2005.
She was a member of Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church of Conneaut Lake and was involved with its Rosary Society. She was a very helping hand in her community, church and neighborhood.
During World War II, she worked as a registered nurse at U.S. Steel in McKeesport, PA and at McKeesport Hospital.
After moving to Conneaut Lake in 1946 with her husband, she worked at the former Spencer Hospital now Meadville Medical Center in various capacities during her 38 years of employment there including teaching nursing students, assisting with operating the hospital's first intensive care unit and as head nurse in the recovery room prior to her retirement. She also worked as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1951.
Interment in Our Lady Queen of the Americas Cemetery.
She was born Aug. 21, 1921, in Collingsburg, a daughter of Arthur W. and Elizabeth Beaman Backstrom. She married Robert J. Weiland Sr. April 21, 1945. He preceded her in death May 21, 2005.
She was a member of Our Lady Queen of the Americas Church of Conneaut Lake and was involved with its Rosary Society. She was a very helping hand in her community, church and neighborhood.
During World War II, she worked as a registered nurse at U.S. Steel in McKeesport, PA and at McKeesport Hospital.
After moving to Conneaut Lake in 1946 with her husband, she worked at the former Spencer Hospital now Meadville Medical Center in various capacities during her 38 years of employment there including teaching nursing students, assisting with operating the hospital's first intensive care unit and as head nurse in the recovery room prior to her retirement. She also worked as a nurse at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1951.
Interment in Our Lady Queen of the Americas Cemetery.
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