Lee County FlArchives Obituaries.....Schlager, Evvelyn December 29, 2011 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/fl/flfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Charlotte Grove http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00030.html#0007435 January 1, 2012, 6:59 pm The News Press Dec. 30 , 2011 Evelyn Schlager, 84, passed peacefully in her sleep at Hope Hospice in Ft. Myers, FL on December 29, 2011. She is survived by her loving husband of 64 years, two sons and their families and three grandchildren. She and her husband moved to Cape Coral, FL in 1989 from Cherry Hill, NJ. She was born in Philadelphia and graduated from the Mt. Sinai School of Nursing. While a mother of two, she attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and received her BSN. She was the first Director of Nurses at the new JFK hospital in south NJ where she was part of the creation of that nursing program. Disabled at a young age, she volunteered to write braille books for the blind, filed with the Library of Congress. Funeral Services will be held Sunday, January 1, 2012 at 11 am at Ft. Myers Memorial Gaden, Ft. Myers. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/fl/lee/obits/s/schlager1691gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/flfiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb