[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 75 (Tuesday, May 18, 2010)]
[Senate]
[Page S3905]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                 REMEMBERING MARGARET JOAN MORGAN FOLEY

 Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I ask my colleagues to join me in 
honoring the memory of Margaret Joan Morgan Foley. Mrs. Foley passed 
away on May 9 at her home in Visalia. She was 87 years old.
  Margaret Foley was born in Dawson Springs, KY, on November 5, 1922. 
After obtaining her registered nursing license at the age of 21 from 
the Salem School of Nursing, she enlisted in the U.S. Army in the fall 
of 1943. During World War II, she would serve in the Philippines and 
Nagasaki, Japan.
  Upon her return home, Mrs. Foley settled in Los Angeles where she 
worked as a surgical nurse at Saint Luke's Hospital. During this 
period, she met and married James Foley. A person of remarkable 
character and determination, Mrs. Foley was undeterred by a bout with 
tuberculosis that required a 23-month stay at a sanitarium in Altadena, 
as she fought valiantly to full recovery and continued her education at 
the University of Southern California.
  In 1955, the Foleys moved north to Tulare, where Mr. Foley accepted a 
job as a reporter for the Tulare Advance-Register. Spurred on by a 
lifelong passion to improve the education, health and welfare of 
children and the poor, Mrs. Foley generously lent her time and 
considerable talents to a number of important community causes; the 
Parent Teacher Association, the Tulare Mental Health Advisory Board, 
Tulare County Legal Services, Tulare County Health System Agency, and 
the Porterville State Board Hospital.
  In 1969, Mrs. Foley resumed working as a part-time nurse at Kaweah 
Delta District Hospital. For the next 21 years, she successfully served 
as a nursing supervisor for neonatal care and eventually becoming the 
perinatal manager for the hospital until her retirement in 1990.
  Mrs. Foley continued her commitment to help those who are less 
fortunate during her retirement. In 1990, she was elected to the Kaweah 
Delta Health Care District Board of Directors. For the next 20 years, 
she would leave an indelible impact on the board through her tenures as 
its secretary, vice president, and president. As someone who was always 
willing to lend a helping hand, she also served on the College of the 
Sequoias Nursing Advisory Committee, the Good Samaritan Board, and as a 
staff nurse at the Good News Clinic. Mrs. Foley embodied the best 
ideals of volunteerism and public service.
  A person of great warmth and humility, Mrs. Foley was admired by 
those who knew her for her kindness, compassion and decency. She was 
the inaugural recipient of the Tulare County Bar Association Liberty 
Bell Award in 1976, the 1980 Visalia Chamber of Commerce Woman of the 
Year, 1983 College of the Sequoias Nursing Faculty's Nurse of the Year 
and, most recently, the 2006 Rose Ann Vuich Ethical Leadership Award, a 
well-deserved and prestigious award that celebrates excellence and 
integrity in public service.
  Margaret Foley devoted most of her life to making a positive impact 
on the lives of others. Mrs. Foley's generously gave her boundless 
compassion and precious humanity to uplifting and empowering those who 
are most often neglected in our society: the young and the poor. Mrs. 
Foley has left behind a legacy of service and the admiration of those 
whose lives she touched over the years. She will be dearly missed.
  Mrs. Foley was preceded in death by her husband Jim; her parents 
William Roderick and Florence Pugh Morgan; two brothers, Roderick 
William and John Paul Morgan; and a sister Ann Trader Schweiger. She is 
survived by her children, James and his wife Penelope Applegarth; John 
and his wife Anne Bird; Morgan and his wife Sandra Platt; Sara Foley 
Fox and her husband Michael; and Patricia Foley Teaford and her husband 
Elliott; seven grandchildren; and two brothers, William Radtke and 
James Trader.

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