Elizabeth Embry
A Witness to the Resurrection service for Elizabeth “Betty” Embry will be at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Brown-Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home at Cottonwood Falls. The Rev. Pat Ireland will conduct the service. Burial will be in Prairie Grove Cemetery in rural Cottonwood Falls. The family will meet friends one hour before the service. Friends also may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday from 9 a.m. until service time.
Memorial contributions to the Newman School of Nursing or Emporia Presbyterian Manor may be sent in care of the funeral home, 201 Cherry St., Cottonwood Falls, KS 66845.
Mrs. Embry died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2006, at Newman Regional Health. She was 80.
Mrs. Embry, a registered nurse, worked at Newman Hospital from 1948 to 1950, 1952 to 1954 and 1982 to 1991. During her travels as a Navy wife, she worked at Norfolk General Hospital in Virginia and Symmes Hospital in Arlington, Mass. She specialized in coronary care beginning in 1968 and spent many years teaching coronary care classes.
The daughter of Joseph William and Eva Pauline Park Mauderly, she was born Jan. 27, 1926, in rural Chase County. She graduated from Clements High School in 1944 and from the Newman Hospital School of Nursing in 1948.
Mrs. Embry was a member of the Presbyterian Church. She was an active member of the American Nurses Association, serving at various times as board member, secretary, district president and Kansas delegate to national meetings. She also was active in the Flint Hills Association, a member of the American Heart Association and a delegate to the State American Heart Association, a member of the A.H.A. Council on Cardiovascular Nursing, American Association of Critical Care Nursing and the American Diabetes Association. She served on hospital continuing education and cardiac rehabilitation committees. She played the piano and sang with the Sweet Adelines in Emporia.
She is survived by a daughter, Lynn Barnes of Juneau, Alaska; a son, Robert Embry of Fresno, Calif.; and two granddaughters.
A daughter, Katherine Jean/Zenobia Embry-Nimmer; two brothers, J. Park Mauderly and Allen Mauderly; and a sister, Beulah Irwin, died earlier.