Obituary from the "Chicago Tribune" December 22, 2005:
Lucille Ellen Teitelman, Registered Nurse and former Director of Nursing at Birchwood Plaza in Chicago, died on Tuesday at Birchwood Plaza. Mrs. Teitelman was 96. Beloved wife of the late Alex; loving mother of Marilyn Jewell, Anne (Daniel Koditschek) Teitelman and the late Martin Teitelman; cherished grandmother of Jason (Rebecca) Velasco, Patience Joy ''PJ'' Jewell, Benjamin and Alex Koditschek; treasured great-grandmother of Noah and Jonah; dear sister of Rosemary and the late Harriet, Evelyn and Marie. Visitation Friday, December 23, 2005, 10 a.m. until time of services at 12 Noon at Weinstein Funeral Home, 1300 W. Devon Ave., Chicago. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be made to the Council for The Jewish Elderly, 3003 W. Touhy Ave., Chicago, IL 60645 or to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Association, 4709 Golf Rd., Suite 1015, Skokie, IL 60076.
During her two decades as a nursing director, Lucille Teitelman nurtured patients and also staff at the Birchwood Plaza nursing home. That tender care was repaid when Mrs. Teitelman became a patient at Birchwood four years ago while in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Comforted by the friendly faces and familiar setting, she accompanied the staff on rounds as she did as director in the 1970s and '80s. She spent free time visiting the nurses' lounge, sipping coffee and commiserating about the paperwork demands of the profession. Mrs. Teitelman, 86, a longtime resident of Rogers Park, she died of Alzheimer's complications Monday, Dec. 20, in Birchwood Plaza in Chicago. "She made us feel like a family. She was always smiling, and I don't think I ever saw her mad. I never felt bad coming to her with silly questions," said Rosemary Sampang, who was hired by Mrs. Teitelman as a new nurse in 1980 and later took her place as nursing director. "When she came back, we made her feel like she wasn't a resident here. Because she was the boss. Sometimes she would see me doing something, and she would say, `I taught you that.' She was right. She taught me a lot." She found her calling as a teenager, when she was hospitalized with a painful abdominal illness and grew close to the nurses who cared for her. She left her tiny hometown in Indiana and moved to Chicago to pursue her education and career, taking a job as a ward nurse at Cook County Hospital. She loved bowling and poker and hitting the town with her girlfriends, said her youngest daughter, Anne Teitelman. She also cherished her independence as a single career woman. That single life ended when she made a phone call to a Chicago radio talk show called "Who's Talking?" Radio personality "Hal Tate" interviewed movie stars who disguised their voices to stump callers. The young nurse guessed the star and won tickets to the show, but the host decided to deliver them himself after realizing his caller lived in the single nurses dormitory at the County Hospital. "When she opened the door, he thought, There is the most beautiful woman in the world," Anne Teitelman said of her dad, who told her the story of their first meeting. Alex Teitelman died in 1974 after a career in radio and writing entertainment news for Chicago newspapers. At a time when many women left their careers after marriage, Mrs. Teitelman took off only a short time when her three children were young. She worked as an intensive care nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she also held supervisory positions before taking the director job at the nursing home, which was then known as Sheridan Gardens. Despite her passion for nursing, she scoffed at taking medicine and hadn't been to a doctor for 40 years, her daughter said. After she retired, she stayed busy playing bingo and bowling, keeping up her 200 average. Known as Lucky Strike to her bowling pals, she won a trophy for rolling a perfect 300 game at age 80. Mrs. Teitelman was predeceased by her son, Martin. Besides her youngest daughter, she is survived by daughter Marilyn Jewell; a sister, Rosemary Schall; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. Services have been held.
Lucille Ellen Teitelman, Registered Nurse and former Director of Nursing at Birchwood Plaza in Chicago, died on Tuesday at Birchwood Plaza. Mrs. Teitelman was 96. Beloved wife of the late Alex; loving mother of Marilyn Jewell, Anne (Daniel Koditschek) Teitelman and the late Martin Teitelman; cherished grandmother of Jason (Rebecca) Velasco, Patience Joy ''PJ'' Jewell, Benjamin and Alex Koditschek; treasured great-grandmother of Noah and Jonah; dear sister of Rosemary and the late Harriet, Evelyn and Marie. Visitation Friday, December 23, 2005, 10 a.m. until time of services at 12 Noon at Weinstein Funeral Home, 1300 W. Devon Ave., Chicago. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be made to the Council for The Jewish Elderly, 3003 W. Touhy Ave., Chicago, IL 60645 or to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Association, 4709 Golf Rd., Suite 1015, Skokie, IL 60076.
During her two decades as a nursing director, Lucille Teitelman nurtured patients and also staff at the Birchwood Plaza nursing home. That tender care was repaid when Mrs. Teitelman became a patient at Birchwood four years ago while in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Comforted by the friendly faces and familiar setting, she accompanied the staff on rounds as she did as director in the 1970s and '80s. She spent free time visiting the nurses' lounge, sipping coffee and commiserating about the paperwork demands of the profession. Mrs. Teitelman, 86, a longtime resident of Rogers Park, she died of Alzheimer's complications Monday, Dec. 20, in Birchwood Plaza in Chicago. "She made us feel like a family. She was always smiling, and I don't think I ever saw her mad. I never felt bad coming to her with silly questions," said Rosemary Sampang, who was hired by Mrs. Teitelman as a new nurse in 1980 and later took her place as nursing director. "When she came back, we made her feel like she wasn't a resident here. Because she was the boss. Sometimes she would see me doing something, and she would say, `I taught you that.' She was right. She taught me a lot." She found her calling as a teenager, when she was hospitalized with a painful abdominal illness and grew close to the nurses who cared for her. She left her tiny hometown in Indiana and moved to Chicago to pursue her education and career, taking a job as a ward nurse at Cook County Hospital. She loved bowling and poker and hitting the town with her girlfriends, said her youngest daughter, Anne Teitelman. She also cherished her independence as a single career woman. That single life ended when she made a phone call to a Chicago radio talk show called "Who's Talking?" Radio personality "Hal Tate" interviewed movie stars who disguised their voices to stump callers. The young nurse guessed the star and won tickets to the show, but the host decided to deliver them himself after realizing his caller lived in the single nurses dormitory at the County Hospital. "When she opened the door, he thought, There is the most beautiful woman in the world," Anne Teitelman said of her dad, who told her the story of their first meeting. Alex Teitelman died in 1974 after a career in radio and writing entertainment news for Chicago newspapers. At a time when many women left their careers after marriage, Mrs. Teitelman took off only a short time when her three children were young. She worked as an intensive care nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she also held supervisory positions before taking the director job at the nursing home, which was then known as Sheridan Gardens. Despite her passion for nursing, she scoffed at taking medicine and hadn't been to a doctor for 40 years, her daughter said. After she retired, she stayed busy playing bingo and bowling, keeping up her 200 average. Known as Lucky Strike to her bowling pals, she won a trophy for rolling a perfect 300 game at age 80. Mrs. Teitelman was predeceased by her son, Martin. Besides her youngest daughter, she is survived by daughter Marilyn Jewell; a sister, Rosemary Schall; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. Services have been held.
Obituary from the "Chicago Tribune" December 22, 2005:
Lucille Ellen Teitelman, Registered Nurse and former Director of Nursing at Birchwood Plaza in Chicago, died on Tuesday at Birchwood Plaza. Mrs. Teitelman was 96. Beloved wife of the late Alex; loving mother of Marilyn Jewell, Anne (Daniel Koditschek) Teitelman and the late Martin Teitelman; cherished grandmother of Jason (Rebecca) Velasco, Patience Joy ''PJ'' Jewell, Benjamin and Alex Koditschek; treasured great-grandmother of Noah and Jonah; dear sister of Rosemary and the late Harriet, Evelyn and Marie. Visitation Friday, December 23, 2005, 10 a.m. until time of services at 12 Noon at Weinstein Funeral Home, 1300 W. Devon Ave., Chicago. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be made to the Council for The Jewish Elderly, 3003 W. Touhy Ave., Chicago, IL 60645 or to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Association, 4709 Golf Rd., Suite 1015, Skokie, IL 60076.
During her two decades as a nursing director, Lucille Teitelman nurtured patients and also staff at the Birchwood Plaza nursing home. That tender care was repaid when Mrs. Teitelman became a patient at Birchwood four years ago while in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Comforted by the friendly faces and familiar setting, she accompanied the staff on rounds as she did as director in the 1970s and '80s. She spent free time visiting the nurses' lounge, sipping coffee and commiserating about the paperwork demands of the profession. Mrs. Teitelman, 86, a longtime resident of Rogers Park, she died of Alzheimer's complications Monday, Dec. 20, in Birchwood Plaza in Chicago. "She made us feel like a family. She was always smiling, and I don't think I ever saw her mad. I never felt bad coming to her with silly questions," said Rosemary Sampang, who was hired by Mrs. Teitelman as a new nurse in 1980 and later took her place as nursing director. "When she came back, we made her feel like she wasn't a resident here. Because she was the boss. Sometimes she would see me doing something, and she would say, `I taught you that.' She was right. She taught me a lot." She found her calling as a teenager, when she was hospitalized with a painful abdominal illness and grew close to the nurses who cared for her. She left her tiny hometown in Indiana and moved to Chicago to pursue her education and career, taking a job as a ward nurse at Cook County Hospital. She loved bowling and poker and hitting the town with her girlfriends, said her youngest daughter, Anne Teitelman. She also cherished her independence as a single career woman. That single life ended when she made a phone call to a Chicago radio talk show called "Who's Talking?" Radio personality "Hal Tate" interviewed movie stars who disguised their voices to stump callers. The young nurse guessed the star and won tickets to the show, but the host decided to deliver them himself after realizing his caller lived in the single nurses dormitory at the County Hospital. "When she opened the door, he thought, There is the most beautiful woman in the world," Anne Teitelman said of her dad, who told her the story of their first meeting. Alex Teitelman died in 1974 after a career in radio and writing entertainment news for Chicago newspapers. At a time when many women left their careers after marriage, Mrs. Teitelman took off only a short time when her three children were young. She worked as an intensive care nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she also held supervisory positions before taking the director job at the nursing home, which was then known as Sheridan Gardens. Despite her passion for nursing, she scoffed at taking medicine and hadn't been to a doctor for 40 years, her daughter said. After she retired, she stayed busy playing bingo and bowling, keeping up her 200 average. Known as Lucky Strike to her bowling pals, she won a trophy for rolling a perfect 300 game at age 80. Mrs. Teitelman was predeceased by her son, Martin. Besides her youngest daughter, she is survived by daughter Marilyn Jewell; a sister, Rosemary Schall; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. Services have been held.
Lucille Ellen Teitelman, Registered Nurse and former Director of Nursing at Birchwood Plaza in Chicago, died on Tuesday at Birchwood Plaza. Mrs. Teitelman was 96. Beloved wife of the late Alex; loving mother of Marilyn Jewell, Anne (Daniel Koditschek) Teitelman and the late Martin Teitelman; cherished grandmother of Jason (Rebecca) Velasco, Patience Joy ''PJ'' Jewell, Benjamin and Alex Koditschek; treasured great-grandmother of Noah and Jonah; dear sister of Rosemary and the late Harriet, Evelyn and Marie. Visitation Friday, December 23, 2005, 10 a.m. until time of services at 12 Noon at Weinstein Funeral Home, 1300 W. Devon Ave., Chicago. Interment Memorial Park Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorials in her name may be made to the Council for The Jewish Elderly, 3003 W. Touhy Ave., Chicago, IL 60645 or to the Alzheimer's Disease Research Association, 4709 Golf Rd., Suite 1015, Skokie, IL 60076.
During her two decades as a nursing director, Lucille Teitelman nurtured patients and also staff at the Birchwood Plaza nursing home. That tender care was repaid when Mrs. Teitelman became a patient at Birchwood four years ago while in the advanced stages of Alzheimer's disease. Comforted by the friendly faces and familiar setting, she accompanied the staff on rounds as she did as director in the 1970s and '80s. She spent free time visiting the nurses' lounge, sipping coffee and commiserating about the paperwork demands of the profession. Mrs. Teitelman, 86, a longtime resident of Rogers Park, she died of Alzheimer's complications Monday, Dec. 20, in Birchwood Plaza in Chicago. "She made us feel like a family. She was always smiling, and I don't think I ever saw her mad. I never felt bad coming to her with silly questions," said Rosemary Sampang, who was hired by Mrs. Teitelman as a new nurse in 1980 and later took her place as nursing director. "When she came back, we made her feel like she wasn't a resident here. Because she was the boss. Sometimes she would see me doing something, and she would say, `I taught you that.' She was right. She taught me a lot." She found her calling as a teenager, when she was hospitalized with a painful abdominal illness and grew close to the nurses who cared for her. She left her tiny hometown in Indiana and moved to Chicago to pursue her education and career, taking a job as a ward nurse at Cook County Hospital. She loved bowling and poker and hitting the town with her girlfriends, said her youngest daughter, Anne Teitelman. She also cherished her independence as a single career woman. That single life ended when she made a phone call to a Chicago radio talk show called "Who's Talking?" Radio personality "Hal Tate" interviewed movie stars who disguised their voices to stump callers. The young nurse guessed the star and won tickets to the show, but the host decided to deliver them himself after realizing his caller lived in the single nurses dormitory at the County Hospital. "When she opened the door, he thought, There is the most beautiful woman in the world," Anne Teitelman said of her dad, who told her the story of their first meeting. Alex Teitelman died in 1974 after a career in radio and writing entertainment news for Chicago newspapers. At a time when many women left their careers after marriage, Mrs. Teitelman took off only a short time when her three children were young. She worked as an intensive care nurse at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, where she also held supervisory positions before taking the director job at the nursing home, which was then known as Sheridan Gardens. Despite her passion for nursing, she scoffed at taking medicine and hadn't been to a doctor for 40 years, her daughter said. After she retired, she stayed busy playing bingo and bowling, keeping up her 200 average. Known as Lucky Strike to her bowling pals, she won a trophy for rolling a perfect 300 game at age 80. Mrs. Teitelman was predeceased by her son, Martin. Besides her youngest daughter, she is survived by daughter Marilyn Jewell; a sister, Rosemary Schall; four grandchildren; and two great-grandsons. Services have been held.
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