[Magdalen] R.I.P. Gail Shipp

[Judy Fleener]

Prayers for Gail and for you.

On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 7:52 PM Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Prayers for her soul and for you, Gail. She sounds like an amazing woman!
>
> > On Nov 30, 2019, at 1:39 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Prayers, please, for the repose of my friend Gail Shipp, who died on
> > Thanksgiving Day. Gail and I were longtime friends, going back to my
> first
> > days of home health in 1990. Gail was the epitome of Shakespeare's
> "Though
> > she be but little, she is fierce." Standing barely 4'11, she was
> determined
> > not to be ignored. She was a tireless and fearless fighter for the rights
> > of her patients, a terrific psych nurse (she took the patients the rest
> of
> > us didn't really want and was great with them), and great with hospice
> > patients also. She was the bane of supervisors as she didn't put up with
> BS
> > and would argue with them if she thought they were wrong, which was
> often.
> > However, she spoke up for the rest of us, so we liked that! She worked in
> > home health long after the rest of us had gone elsewhere or
> retired....and
> > she was older than the other two of our triumvirate, which I think would
> > have made her 81 or 82 at her death. Gail had been a lapsed Catholic for
> > many years and somehow had connected with a large and active Methodist
> > church about 18 years ago. This led her to become an active and committed
> > Christian and eventually a lay minister. She did medical missionary work
> in
> > Africa and the Philippines for the church and loved doing it. Gail and I
> > were on opposite sides of the political spectrum but didn't discuss it
> > much. The only argument we ever had was over pharmaceutical stocks.....I
> > wouldn't invest in them because I said the companies behaved in immoral
> > ways and she argued they were profitable and it didn't matter to her what
> > they did. About a year after she had become a committed Christian, we
> were
> > having lunch and she told me she had divested her portfolio of all
> > pharmaceutical stocks. She said, "You were right all along and I can't
> call
> > myself a Christian and support them." I hadn't seen her the last couple
> of
> > times I was in Tennessee because I flew down and didn't have a car at my
> > disposal, but I knew that her health wasn't good. I'll miss my tough,
> > fierce friend. She's survived by her husband Jim, 6 kids by her first
> > marriage, an adopted daughter, and innumerable grandchildren and
> > great-grandchildren.
>


-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN,SSH
Western Michigan