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Excited about the
thought of paying that extra
special Nightingale Tribute
to dedicated nurses after
their deaths, Tracy, when she
unexpectedly ran into her
former nursing instructor,
Maureen Frein, mentioned
the newly formed Nurses
Honor Guard of Calhoun
County, of which she is now
president.
“I happened to run into
her and was telling her about
the Honor Guard and sheBy SHELLY KEHRLE-
SULSER
Battle Creek Shopper News
It was all so fortuitous,
said Tracy Rine-Cole.
A hospice and palliative
care nurse, she decided
to take up the offer of
her friend and colleague,
Theresa Lambert, to
form a local version of a
national organization that
honors nurses with special
memorial services at their
funerals.
Nurse Honor Guard of Calhoun
County pays tribute to fallen nurses
was semi-retired, and, she
was interested in potentially
joining us,” said Rine-Cole.
Three weeks later, she
got word that Maureen -
“Mo” - had fallen ill and
was hospitalized.
On Dec. 7, former KCC
CNA instructor and Mercy
Pavilion nurse, Maureen
Frein, 66, died.
Rine-Cole, who
formerly worked with
Lambert and Charlotte
Rensberger delivering
babies, happened to hear of
her former mentor’s passing
later that week, on Dec. 10.
“I heard about it on
a Friday and her funeral
was on a Saturday,” saidRine-Cole. “I reached out
to Theresa and said, ‘she
would be perfect to be the
first.’”
Rine-Cole called Frein
“a nurses nurse,” noting that
she not only taught nursing
and worked as a nurse
but also collected nursing
memorabilia, uniforms and
more.
“Just by coincidence,
she hired me when I was
a new LPN, when I was
19,” noted Rine-Cole, who
now has 30-years in the
profession under her belt,
“and she was director of
nursing at the old Mercy
Pavilion on 20th Street.
She went by ‘Mo,’ short forMaureen and I worked there
a couple of years and off
and on through the years, I
would see her.”Rine-Cole and Lambert,
who had already recruited
three of their friends in
nursing to join the honor
guard, weren’t sure they
were ready.
“I was like, ‘Oh, I wish
we were ready and she’s
like, ‘well, you think we
can make it happen?’” said
Rine-Cole of Lambert. “We
weren’t officially planning
to start until January or
February, and we winged it
and Theresa and I were the
only ones available who had
our outfits already.”
According to
Rensberger, the memorial
service consists of standing
guard at the casket, with
the volunteer honor guard
members, who are all
nurses, taking turns every
15 minutes.
The participants
wear vintage nurses
attire, consisting of a blue
and white cape and thetraditional nurses cap.
“We have a table that’s
set up that honors the nurse,”
explained Rensberger. “So,
some nurses have a picture
of their graduation that has
their nursing cap, some of
them have their nursing pin.
If not, then we light a candle
in the Nightingale lamp and
we have a single white rose
on the table just signifying
the life of a nurse and then
we have a nurse in the
vintage formal uniform who
stands guard at the casket.”
During the five-minute
ceremony, the Nurses Honor
Guard reads a memorial,
gives the final roll call by
celebrating the nurse by
name, talking about her or
his life in the profession.
“We ring a bell three
times to say that her (or his)
duty and her (or his) life
as a nurse is complete and
that she can rest in peace
or he can rest in peace,”
said Rensberger, “and then
we blow the candle and
the lamp out and the lamp
is a porcelain lamp that we
give the family and then
we leave, the ceremony is
done.”
At Frein’s funeral,
Lambert and Rine-Cole not
only wore their capes but
Lambert was able to honor
the memory of her own
mother, who also was a
nurse, by wearing her nurses
cap.
“She didn’t get this
honor at her funeral a
couple years ago,” said
Lambert, who delivers
babies for Bronson Battle
Creek Hospital, “so in
honor of her, I wear her cap
at the ceremonies. It’s a little
yellowed but I don’t care.”
Though Lambert didn’t
know Frein, she knew her
by reputation and through
Rine-Cole.
“We practiced the night
before and we went and
did it,” said Lambert, who
serves as the organizations’
vice president. “It was
incredibly powerful. There
were tears everywhere.”
Lambert first heard of
the Nurses Honor Guard
by reading an article
online at https://www.
opeiunursescouncil.org/
NursesHonorGuard.aspx,
she said.
“It wasn’t my idea. Julie
Murray from Oklahoma
started it, actually,”
explained Lambert. “I
happened to see an article
on it, and it blew my mind
so I looked and looked, and
I couldn’t find what I needed
so I finally got a hold of her,
and she walked me through
everything on how to do it.”
Lambert and her co-
founders established a non-
profit so they can fund raise
to cover the costs of the
lanterns and other suppliesThe funeral for
Maureen Frein was held
Dec. 11 at Bachman-
Hebble Funeral Service
where the new Nurses
Honor Guard of
Calhoun County paid
tribute to the career
nurse who had also
been a boss and a
mentor for honor guard
President, Tracy Rine-
Cole.St. John Evangelist Catholic Church in Albion
Organist/Choir DirectorThe Organist/Choir Director position is a part-time (19.5
hours weekly) position. The parish choir is in session
from September through the end of the Easter season.
As a deeply valued and integral member of our staff, our
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dedicated choir which averages 10 voices weekly. There
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49068