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Dr. Patricia Ruth Sagan Wilkins

d. April 7, 2018

Dr. Patricia Ruth Sagan Wilkins

Patricia Ruth Sagan Wilkins, RN BSN, MSN, DNS, of Biloxi, MS passed away Saturday, April 7, 2018 in Biloxi. She was born on April 7, 1956 at Ft. Sill, OK. Patricia graduated from Fairhope High School, Fairhope, AL in 1974 and obtained her BSN from the University of South Alabama in 1978, her Master of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1983 and her Doctor of Nursing Science from Louisiana State University in New Orleans in 1998. She was a member of the Fairhope United Methodist Church in Fairhope, AL. Patricia started her long career in Nursing as a Staff Nurse/Charge Nurse CCU/MICU, SICU at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile from 1978-1982. She was Staff Nurse part-time in the Neurosurgical Unit at the University of Alabama Birmingham Hospitals in Birmingham from 1981-1982. Patricia taught Nursing at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1982 as a Graduate Teaching Assistant from 1982-1983. She was a Surgical Clinical Nurse Specialist covering five surgical nursing units at the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile from 1982-1983 and was the Head Nurse over the general surgical floor, a 33 bed unit there from 1983-1984, 1984-1985 she was a Staff/Charge Nurse in the MICU/CCU there as well. While there, she was Adjunct Faculty with the School of Nursing at the University of South Alabama from 1983-1985. Patricia was an Instructor of Nursing at the University of Southern Mississippi at Hattiesburg from 1985-1989and was a Visiting Instructor of Nursing at the Gulf Park Campus in Long Beach, MS from 1989-1990 and an Assistant Professor there from 1990-1992. In August of 1991 she met and married Ensign George I. Wilkins, RN, USN of Biloxi, her husband of 26 years. She continued her career as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the College of Nursing in the in the Department of Adult Health Nursing, at the University of South Alabama from 1992-1995. Patricia returned to teach as an instructor at the School of Nursing, University of Southern Mississippi, Long Beach from 1995-1998. She was a Clinical Assistant Professor with the College of Nursing at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences at Little Rock, AR from 1998-2000 and she was an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, IL from 2005-2006. Patricia was a visiting Nurse Instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi at Long Beach from 2006-2007. Patricia served on and chaired many committees, participated in and conducted Research and was involved in numerous voluntary and charitable works. She was published in 1989 and reviewed Nursing texts for WB Saunders from 1986-1995 and contributed to a Nursing NCLEX Manual in 1996. She was a member of Sigma Theta Tau, Honor Society of Nursing and received many awards, including recognition for Excellence in Graduate Nursing Research at the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 1983. Above all Patricia was a loving wife, mother and daughter who deeply enjoyed her family and her life here on the Gulf Coast. The family of Patricia would like to extend their sincere thanks to Dr. Andrew Peterson from Merit Health Biloxi, the personnel at Kindred Hospice, Nursing Assistant Christie Trosclair and of course all of her friends and family. She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Stanley Sagan of Haverhill, MA; and her grandmother, Isloe Faust of Fairhope, AL. Patricia is survived by her husband, George I. Wilkins, Jr. Capt. USAF Ret.; their two sons, George I. (Samantha) Wilkins, III and John Stanley Wilkins; her mother, Peggy Faust Sagan of Fairhope, AL; her brother, Rev. Dr. Paul (Denise) Sagan, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church, Fayetteville, AR; and two grandchildren, Gabriel and Ezra Wilkins. Funeral Services will be held at the Howard Avenue Chapel of Bradford-O’Keefe Funeral Home on Tuesday, April 10, 2018 at 10:00 am. Friends may visit from 9:00 am until service time. Interment will follow at Biloxi National Cemetery.
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Visitation

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

9:00 - 10:00 am

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Service

Tuesday, April 10, 2018

Starts at 10:00 am

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59 Wayside Rd, Stuart, VA 24171

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