Mary E. Wingert, 69, of Olney died Wednesday January 31, 2001 at St. John's Hospital in Springfield.  Funeral services at Summers-Kistler Funeral Home with Reverend Mel Nead officiating. Burial in Haven Hill Cemetery in Olney.

Mrs. Wingert was born on August 9, 1931 in Clay County, the daughter and youngest of nine children of Jesse Marion II and Elizabeth Caroline (Gillespie) Stanley. She married Loren D. "Red" Wingert on May 9, 1952, in Richland County. He preceded her in death on December 20, 1984.

She worked from 1953 to 1980 at Richland Memorial Hospital in Olney with several of those  years as operating room head nurse. She worked at Weber Medical Clinic as office nurse and private scrub nurse for several of the surgeons. She went to Wilson School, a one room grade school in Richland County and Olney Area High School in 1948. She was a 1951 graduate of Paris Hospital School of Nursing in Paris and a graduate of Indiana University, Indianapolis campus in psychiatry and newborn intensive care.

Mrs. Wingert is survived by two sons, Loren David Wingert and his wife, Carla of Olney and Joe Douglas Wingert and his wife, Cindy of Olney; a sister, Maxine Buckley; two step-grandchildren; one grandson; several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, three brothers, Roscoe, Jess H. Picken and Marion L. Glenn Stanley, and four sisters, Beulah Abel, Ethel Kelm, Dorothy Thomas and Pauline Pool.

Published in Olney Daily Mail (IL)