Alberta E. Rodemann

RODEMANN Alberta E. (Kruse) Rodemann, age 89, died Monday, October 22, 2007, at Friendship Village Columbus-Health Center, Columbus, Ohio. Retired from a career in nursing, and nursing education at Hawkeye Institute of Technology, Waterloo, Iowa, 1975-1984. Rodemann also served as director of the pediatric unit Black Hawk County Health Center, as nurse, house-mother and counselor of the University of Redlands CA program-in Europe, staff nurse at St. Elizabeth Hospital, San Bernardino, CA, American Red Cross nursing coordinator in Redlands, CA, faculty instructor med-surg. nursing Luther Hospital, Eau Claire, WI. Rodemann taught mother and baby care for the American Red Cross in Atlanta, GA, was faculty instructor and clinical supervisor obstetrics Ft. Sanders Presbyterian Hospital, Knoxville, TN, floor nurse - Chicago Lying-In Hospital and University of Chicago Clinics, nursing supervisor 800 bed St. Joseph's Hospital Paterson, NJ, nursing supervisor - Passaic General Hospital, Passaic, NJ, floor nurse-psychiatric unit U.S. Veterans Hospital, Lyons, New Jersey, 1944-45, and head nurse at Essex County Hospital, Cedar Grove, NJ. Rodemann also served private duty nursing assignments. She received her BS in nursing education from Seton Hall U., 1954 and her RN from Essex County Hospital, Cedar Grove, NJ in 1943. She completed additional masters coursework at Iowa State University, Wisconsin State University and completed Iowa In-Service training. Rodemann was a member of Friends of Westerville Public Library, Ohio Nurses Association, AAUW, League of Women Voters, and attended Christian Women's Association. She is survived by a sister, Juliana Harvey of Kansas City, MO; daughter, Patricia Rodemann and son-in-law, Russ Eberwein of Lewis Center, Ohio; son, David Rodemann and wife, Nancy and grandchildren, Kem, Crystal, Rose, and Philip of Rockwell City, Iowa. Preceded in death by parents Albert and Rose Kruse, husband Dr. H. William Rodemann, sister-in-law Ingeborg Rodemann, and grandsons Jason and Gilbert Rodemann. Friends may call Thursday, from 4-7 p.m. at SCHOEDINGER WORTHINGTON CHAPEL, 6699 North High Street, Worthington, Ohio. Funeral service will be Friday at 10:30 a.m. at All Saints Lutheran Church, 6770 N. High Street, Worthington. Memorial contributions may be made to Mt. Carmel Hospice, 1144 Dublin Rd., Columbus, OH or All Saints music ministry. Online condolences may be made to www.schoedinger.com. "Sign the online guestbook at www.dispatch.com/obituaries"