Longtime professor of nursing passes away

Paula VehlowLLCC lost a longtime faculty member on Thursday, May 26.

Paula Vehlow, professor of nursing at LLCC since 1987, passed away at St. John’s Hospital. We extend heartfelt sympathy to her family, many friends and colleagues at LLCC.

Her visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. Tuesday, May 31 at Kirlin-Egan and Butler Funeral Home and also from 10-11 a.m. Wednesday, June 1 at the funeral home, just prior to services which begin at 11. Burial will follow at Roselawn Memorial Park.

Paula earned her bachelor of nursing at the University of Illinois and a master of nursing from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, and was pursuing a Ph.D. in nursing at UIUC. After five years teaching at St. John’s School of Nursing, she taught as many as three generations of nursing students at LLCC.  Read her complete obituary. 

Memorials are suggested to the LLCC Foundation for the Paula J. Vehlow Nursing Scholarship.