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Alice Friedlander in a 2003 photo. |
Services are at 10 a.m. today at Grace Lutheran Church, 1326 S. 26 St. Interment will be at Hillcrest Cemetery.
Friedlander served as director of volunteer services at The Nebraska Medical Center from 1972 to 1990. In 1977, she and Connie Skultety co-founded the auxiliary, which provides services and financial support to UNMC and The Nebraska Medical Center. Since 1992, the auxiliary also has awarded student scholarships in Friedlander’s name.
She is survived by her husband, Walter Friedlander, M.D., who founded both the department of neurology (now the department of neurosciences) and the department of medical humanities and jurisprudence (now the department of preventive and societal medicine) at UNMC.
She also is survived by her children, Ron VanOeveren and wife, Linda, Jessie Wuerst and husband, Steve, Bert VanOeveren and wife, Bobbie, all of Omaha, Joseph Friedlander and wife Janelle, of Hazen, N.D., Jeff VanOeveren and wife, Lyn, of Overland Park, Kan., daughter-in-law, Diane Friedlander, of Buffalo, N.Y.; sisters, Jackie Kalal and husband Don, and Dorothy McGinnis, all of Omaha; 15 grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents, Dwight and Alice Lorimer; brother, Richard Lorimer; and son, John Friedlander.
Memorials may be made to the “Alice Friedlander Scholarship Fund” c/o Nebraska Medical Center, University Hospital Auxiliary, 987509 Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-7509.