Catherine Godtfring

Catherine Cay Reid Godtfring, was born to Edward D. and Catherine (Green) Reid, on March 22, 1930, in Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania. She graduated from Nesbitt Memorial Hospital School of Nursing in 1950. She met the love of her life, Bruce Godtfring, on a blind date in the spring of 1952 and they were married a few months later on the 4th of July. Shortly after that, they left Pennsylvania and followed their dreams to California; they moved often throughout their marriage. Cays 50+ years in nursing took many exciting turns from working in a Doctors office in California; serving on the North San Diego County Hospital District board of directors; head nurse at Natrona County Memorial Hospital in Casper, WY; director of nursing at the Wyoming State Training School; and director of nursing at Bishop Randall Hospital in Lander, WY. Cay was also the director of nursing at Page Hospital in AZ; the Uinta County Memorial Hospital in Evanston, WY; director of Canyon View Medical Center Home Health organization; and she supervised home health aides at the Riverton Home Health Care Service. Cay was also a consultant to Central Wyoming Home Care and Showboat Assisted Living Center in Lander. Cay served as the public health nurse of Coconino County, AZ, working primarily on the Navajo Indian reservation. She also helped develop Hospice programs in Fremont County, WY and Page AZ. Cay was the first president of the Wyoming Hospital Association of Nurses Services Administrators Council; she was honored in the Whos Who of American Women and the Whos Who in Health Care. Cay served on the Fremont County Public Health Advisory Board, and she served as a past president of the Wyoming League of Nursing. Cay loved to fish and hunt with her family and watch her beloved Denver Broncos. Her husband Bruce with whom she shared 58 wonderful years of marriage, her brother, Harry Reid, her great grandson, Trevor John Fuller, and her parents precede Cay in death. She is survived by her three children, Cathy Brightwell of North Salt Lake, Utah, Linette (Wayne) Johnson of Hudson, WY, and Craig (Kathy) Godtfring of Spokane, WA. They also have seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. A joint memorial service to celebrate the lives of Bruce and Cay will be held at Faith Lutheran Church, Lander, Wyoming at 3 p.m. on November 5, 2011. Donations in Cays name can be made to Wyoming Public Health Association Nursing Scholarship fund at http://www.wyopha.org/ or the National Alzheimers Organization at http://www.alz.org/join_the_cause_donate.asp.