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Barb and Lois Wulf

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In Loving Memory of Lois Wulf

By her daughters, Sharon, Pam & Barb.

This is a story about our wonderful mom. Of the three of us, only Barb was born at Lancaster Memorial Hospital in 1956. Little did we know that we would feel such a connection to Lancaster Memorial Hospital and now Grant Regional Health Center over the years. It’s where Mom received care throughout the 63 years she lived in Lancaster.  Besides being an early member of the Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, she participated in and enjoyed Grant Regional’s Badger/Hawkeye tailgate party and the Auxiliary Love Lights each year.

A few years back, Mom was losing her hearing and became aware of Grant Regional’s Community Responsibility Program. This program allowed her, as a senior citizen on a fixed income, to obtain her much needed hearing aids. For any of you who knew our mom, you know how important it was to her to be able to hear and communicate with everyone since she participated in so many community and school events throughout the years.  

In October 2009, she was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). At the age of 91, she was not a candidate for aggressive treatment.  Mom’s only viable option was to receive blood and platelet transfusions. For 6 weeks, she made countless trips to GRHC’s Outpatient Department to have day-long transfusions. Mom was one who always had a smile on her face, a story to tell and most of all she enjoyed hearing about the staff’s families and news.  Mom became very attached to the GRHC staff over that month and a half. Together, the outpatient staff and mom shared many jokes, laughs, hugs and even a few tears.  We three girls accompanied her to these visits and the staff always made us feel at home. In December Mom made the tough decision that she did not want to go through any more transfusions and, sadly, we lost her on December 30, 2009. The three of us will be forever grateful to the Grant Regional Health Center staff – for so many things – but especially for the special care and friendship they extended to our mom.

We love you Mom and miss you so much, "Your Girls."

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