Feb 11, 2021 8:00 AM
On Tuesday, Feb. 9, 2021, Jean Clark went to be with her Lord.
The daughter of the late Joseph Earl and Ruth Corum Hocker, Jean was born Sept. 21, 1940 in Sewickley.
She grew up in Ambridge and graduated from Quaker Valley High School. After high school, Jean began the passion of her life; helping and caring for others. She graduated in 1961 from the Presbyterian University Hospital School of Nursing. While attending nursing school, she met the love of her life, Edwin M. Clark, Jr. Jean and Ed were married on the Pitt campus at Heinz Chapel on Dec. 23, 1961. They resided in Pittsburgh while Ed finished his football career at Pitt and then attended law school. During that time, Jean worked at Magee Women’s Hospital and also worked for Dr. George. Jean and Ed moved to Indiana, where she continued her nursing career and worked for Dr. Kauffman, Dr. Cassidy and Dr. Neale. She then went on to serve as a community health nurse with the PA Department of Health in
Courtesy of Terri and Tom Bone
Terri and Tom Bone, donors to the Magee-Womens Research Institute for prematurity research.
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Terri Bone remembered calling the neonatal intensive care unit from her hospital room to check on her newborn daughter.
“The nurse told me, ‘she stopped breathing last night, but she is OK,’ ” said Bone. “ ‘Premature babies do that sometimes.’ ”
After 10 days in the NICU at what is now UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital, baby Megan went home.
Now, 29, Megan is a pediatric neurologist in Texas. As a University of Pittsburgh medical student, she spent time in 2017 in that very same NICU where she was born five weeks early at 6 pounds.
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