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- [S236] - Newspaper Obituarys, 3 Oct 1997, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Reliability: 3).
Funeral services will be held today for Margaret Ellen Yahle, believed to be Wisconsin's first enterostomal therapy nurse. Yahle died Monday at St. Luke's Medical Center after a short illness. She was 72. Enterostomal nurses work with patients w ho have lost bowel or bladder function and are required to wear a pouch, said Yahle's longtime friend and colleague Gloria Gerard. "It was a new field when she entered it," said Gerard, an enterostomal nurse who works for Home Care Medical Inc . Born in Wauwatosa, Yahle graduated from what was then Wauwatosa High School and got a nursing degree from the University of Cincinnati. Yahle worked at St. Joseph's Hospital here from 1952 until she received her master's degree in nursing fro m Marquette University in 1967. After teaching medical surgical nursing at Marquette and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, in 1972 she completed a course in enterostomal therapy at the Cleveland Clinic.
"It was the culmination of years of working with people with these kinds of problems," said her daughter Mary Yahle.
Yahle worked with patients enduring tremendous pain, and she was always patient, caring and optimistic, her daughter said. Along with her daughter, Yahle is survived by her husband, Edward, and another daughter, Patricia Ann.
The funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Bernard's Catholic Church, 7400 Harwood Ave., Wauwatosa, followed by burial at Holy Cross Cemetery and Mausoleum, 7301 W. Nash St.
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1925 - 1997 (72 years)
