This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sutch, Moore, Turniski, Moonert, Morgan Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BZB.2ACI/844 Message Board Post: From The News-Herald Willoughby, Ohio (Lake County) Sunday, December 1, 1996 Willoughby loses one of city's finest By Andrew Lyons News-Herald Staff Writer A longtime Willoughby resident who dedicated her life to health services and gave her heart to her church died in her home Saturday at age 86. Cleveland-born Isabel M. (Moore) Sutch received more than 30 health related awards and worked for about a dozen local organizations throughout her life, family members said. "We thought she was going to live forever," said her son and lifelong Willoughby resident Tim Sutch. Tim Sutch said his mother had an incredible will to live. She was involved n a horse-related accident in the early 1950s, leaving her paralyzed on her right side. After she learned to use the left side of her body, her right side began to come back to life. By the late 1950s, Isabel Sutch's paralyzation had nearly disappeared. "She's one of those people that has a lot of willpower to keep on going," Tim Sutch said. "The will to live is unbelievable." After overcoming the paralysis, Isabel Sutch began working at LakeWest Hospital in Willoughby in 1961 at the age of 51. She spent the next 21 years at LakeWest, in that time developing the Patient Representative Department. She also received LakeWest Hospital's first Employee of the Month Award in 1973. The Hospital continues to give the Isabel Sutch Nurse of the Year Award in her honor. Sheryl Perry, who worked with Sutch for years at the hospital, received the first Sutch Nurse of the Year Award. "She was a true leader, just a dynamic person," remembered Perry, who began work at LakeWest in 1986 with Sutch as her nursing supervisor. "She had the respect of everybody." Other honors also found their way to Sutch. She was given the Willoughby Area Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen's Award in 1978 and the Willoughby Frontier Days Pioneer Award in 1986. At the time, she downplayed her accomplishments. "I'm honored, but I really don't see anything distinguished about doing something you like," Sutch said in an interview in 1978. A former deacon of the First Presbyterian Church in Willoughby, Sutch wrote her church's history in 1986. The church library was named after her in 1993. "She was so full of life," said Rev. Peter Bach, pastor of First Presbyterian. "She was a fabulous caregiver." Graveside services for Sutch will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Willoughby Cemetery, followed by memorial services at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby. The family suggests contributions in her memory to the LakeWest Hoaspital Foundation or First Presbyteriuan Church of Willoughby. Sutch's death notice appears on Page A31. Isabel M. (Moore) Sutch Graveside services for Isabel M. (Moore) Sutch, 86, a 61-year resident of Willoughby, will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Willoughby Cemetery, followed by memorial services at 1:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby, 4785 Shankland Road. She died Saturday at home. Born Aug. 15, 1910, in Cleveland, she was employed as a registered nurse and patient representative at LakeWest Hospital in the Patient Representative Department, a department which she developed, retiring in 1982 after 21 years. She formerly worked as a private duty nurse. An active member of the First Presbyterian Church in Willoughby, where she was a former deacon, she also wrote the church history. The church library was named in her honor. Mrs. Sutch was past president of Lincoln Elementary in Willoughby P.T.A.; life member of the Boots and Saddle Club; board member of the former Social Transportation Service Board (LakeTran); member of the advisory board of the Lake County Health and Welfare Department; member and former treasurer of the Social Service Professionals; member of the Patient Representative Society; member of the state and regional Agricultural Society (4H); Willoughby Women's Club; and the Little Red School House in Willoughby. She received an award from the Ohio Commission on Aging for outstanding contributions for the benefit of senior citizens in 1975. She also received LakeWest Hospital's first Employee of the Month Award; the Willoughby Area Chamber of Commerce Distinguished Citizen's Award in 1978; and the Willoughby Frontier Days Pioneer Award in 1986. LakeWest Hospital gives an annual award in her honer, The Isabel Sutch Nurse of the Year Award. Survivors are her son, Timothy H. "Butch" (Barbara) of Willoughby; granddaughters, Christine Sutch and Jennifer (Anton) Turniski; and sisters, Helen Moonert of Cleveland and Sheila Morgan of Florida. Her husband, Howard T., died in 1971. Her brothers, Alexander and Charles Moore, are also deceased. Calling hours will be from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday at Davis Trust 100 Funeral Home, 4154 Clark Ave., Willoughby. The Rev. Peter M. Bach of First Presbyterian Church and Rev. William P. Gross, pastor emeritus of First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. The family suggests contributions in her memory to the Lake Hospital Foundation or First Presbyterian Church of Willoughby.