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SUNNY Temp: 41 °F Wind: CLM at 0 mph Thursday, November 28, 2002 SECTIONS Home Page Local News Sports Business Obituaries Life Opinion - Politics AP News Weather Classified Archives Site Map EXTRA HomeLife Magazine W3 Magazine Jobs @ Mail Tribune Tempo A & E Oregon CarZone Wellness Connection Real Estate Newspaper in Education Prime Times Outdoor Journal Personals Movie Times TV Times E The People CLASSIFIEDS Find a Car Find a Home Find a Job Find Everything E SOUTHERN OREGON Automotive Communities Entertainment Publications Recreation Calendar ABOUT US FAQ What's New Advertise Home Delivery Classified Ad Contact Us Media Kit Email Story to a Friend October 6, 2002 Memorial fund will pay tribute to nurse killed in car wreck Peers plan to honor Gloria Krueger with award to SOU grads By JONEL ALECCIA Mail Tribune If new nurses share Gloria Krueger’s passion for community service, Donna Markle hopes it will soften the blow of the former Southern Oregon woman’s death last month in a car crash. Krueger, 30, a former Jackson County community health nurse, died Sept. 17 after a head-on, two-vehicle accident near a Salem-area school. Teachers and colleagues plan to honor Krueger with a memorial fund for student nurses enrolled in the Oregon Health & Science University program in Ashland. Awarded during the annual "pinning ceremony," it will go to a nurse who demonstrates "creativity, interest and passion in community health," said Markle, an Ashland assistant professor of nursing. "We hope that the memory of Gloria will inspire others to do good work," she said. The Gloria Krueger Memorial Fund will be administered through the OHSU Foundation, but recipients will be from Southern Oregon, where Krueger earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing in 1998, Markle said. Krueger also held a bachelor’s degree in biology from George Fox University. After graduation, Krueger was hired to help start a community health clinic in Central Point, but her post was eliminated during a round of county budget cuts in 2000. Two years after Krueger left to seek work in Portland and Salem, nurses here have been keenly affected by her death, said Robin Turgesen, who was Krueger’s mentor. "She had such energy for the community and for the poverty-level population," Turgesen said. Krueger helped link low-income women to resources for diapers, food, Christmas presents and more. Turgesen said Krueger’s passion was unusual in a young nurse who was not married and had no children. She said she believed Krueger was inspired during a stint working with the poor in Haiti and through her religion. "She was a Quaker, but in our field, it’s very important not to evangelize and she didn’t," Turgesen said. "She really lived out her faith." At the time of her death, Krueger lived in Newberg and worked in elementary schools as part of the Salem-Keizer School District’s health services team. Krueger’s mother told organizers her daughter would be surprised and touched at the memorial. "We think Gloria would be humble and not understand what she had done which was so worthy," Penny Krueger wrote. "But she would want to do everything possible to affirm people entering community nursing." Donations to the Gloria Krueger Memorial Fund may be made in care of the OHSU Foundation, 1121 S.W. Salmon St., Suite 200, Portland, OR 97205-2021. Reach reporter JoNel Aleccia at 776-4465, or e-mail [email protected] Printer Friendly Version Email Story to a Friend Subscribe Archive: Click to Search Mail Tribune Home Local News | Sports | Business | Obituaries | Life Opinion - Politics | AP News | Archives | Site Map E Southern Oregon | Classified Copyright 1997-2002 Mail Tribune. All rights reserved. Privacy Policy webmaster feedback A D V E R T I S E R S