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Nov. 19, 1939—Dec. 10, 2010
SueAnn Wooster Ames, Ph. D., of Williamsville, prominent in nursing and nursing education, died Friday in Greenfield Health &Rehabilitation Center, Lancaster, after a long struggle with what was believed to be Pick’s disease, a neurodegenerative disease. She was 71.

Born in Jamestown, she came to Buffalo with her family as a child and was a graduate of Bennett High School. She earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in nursing from the University of Buffalo, completing her doctorate in nursing in 1993.

Dr. Ames in 1961 began as a staff nurse at Millard Fillmore Hospital and was among the original employees of Health- CarePlan, where she was the first nurse practitioner.

As a longtime faculty member of the UB School of Nursing, she specialized in family nurse practitioner and adult primary care courses. Throughout her career, she also worked in homeless shelters and women’s shelters in and around Buffalo. She retired in the mid-1990s.

The recipient of numerous awards and honors, she was appointed to the first class of Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Faculty Fellows at the University of Rochester in 1977. She was chosen to be part of the Citizen Ambassador Team to Czechoslovakia, Sweden and Norway in 1989. She also won the National League for Nursing Award in 1991. She held leadership posts in more than a dozen professional organizations.

Dr. Ames was author of several books and articles on nursing education and clinical care, including “Adult Health Nursing: A Biopsychosocial Approach,” published in 1986, and “Essentials of Adult Health Nursing,” published in 1988, both co-authored with Carol Ren Kneisl.

She was a popular lecturer on nursing education and nursing care delivery and gave keynote addresses to several national nursing organizations. She also was president of the local chapter of Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society of Nursing.

Surviving are her husband of 43 years, Stephen C.; a daughter, Katherine Evelyn “Kevi;” a son, Gregory; two sisters, Carole Jeanne “Tina” Lewis and Margaret Wooster; and two brothers, Gergory D. Wooster Jr. and John “Jack” Wooster.

A service will be at 4 p.m. Thursday in Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1080 Main St.