 Home | Recent News | Clay Center | Retirement Reception 03 Aug 2007 Retirement reception honored Hundley’s lifetime of nursing An open house and reception was held Friday, July 20 at the Presbyterian Manor of Clay Center in honor of the retirement of Hundley Hundley. Hundley has been a nurse for more than 60 years
Hundley came to Presbyterian Manor in September of 1992, though she had already been a nurse for 45 years. She has been a staff nurse as well as an interim Director of Nurses in the nearly 15 years she has been with the Manor. Many wishes of congratulations and gifts from residents, co-workers both current and former, as well as friends and family, were given to Hundley to mark her retirement.
“She has been a dedicated and valued employee during her tenure caring for the residents who have lived here,” said Debra Forshee, director of nursing. “Edna’s hard work and compassion for the residents and their families will be greatly missed.”
Hundley was a diploma graduate from Newman Memorial Hospital in Emporia, KS in 1946, after which she came home to Clay County and served until 1949 as a charge nurse at the Clay County Hospital. Hundley worked in every area of nursing while there except surgery. Harold (Hundley’s husband) had enrolled at KSU so Hundley left the Clay County hospital and went to the Medical-Surgical ward at St. Mary’s Hospital in Manhattan while Harold attended school from 1949-1951. In 1951 Hundley took time off for her kids for a few years.
In 1955 Hundley took up the nursing torch again and worked part-time in Pediatrics at Asbury Hospital in Salina, KS. In 1969 Hundley found herself in Ponca City, Oklahoma as the Newborn Nursery supervisor. Hundley wanted to try the challenging area of community nursing so she began a brief term with the Kay County Health Department in Kay County Oklahoma. Harold’s job required a move so the family headed north to Nebraska.
Throughout the early 1970s, Hundley worked primarily in hospitals. In 1976, Hundley took on a different kind of nursing position as a school nurse for five schools in the Trenton, Nebraska area. Her husband’s job took them out of Nebraska to Missouri, where Hundley continued to work as a school nurse in Missouri two days a week and two or three days as a charge nurse and assistant director of nurses at Beverly Manor in St. Joseph.
In August of 1977 Hundley and her family returned to Kansas. Hundley became the Director of Nurses at Hillhaven in Wichita, an intermediate care home serving up to 180 patients. She spent the next several years working in care home environments and sharing her caring and compassion with the elderly.
In February of 1982 Hundley returned to nursing in a hospital as a staff nurse at Wesley Medical Center in the Medical Neurology unit. Due to staff reductions at Wesley in 1984, Hundley took a job as Director of Nurses at Northeast Health Care Center in Wichita, a skilled nursing home and rehabilitation center. Hundley remained there till she “retired” and moved to northern Kansas in 1992, when she joined the Presbyterian Manor staff.
“We are glad Edna returned to her home to complete her career in nursing,” said Mike Derousseau, executive director. “We wish her well in her retirement and hope she will come back and visit the residents she has so ably cared for.”
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