![]() ![]() Hazel attended Rutgers University, earned her Health Care Administrator's license, was a member of the American College of Health Care Administrators and served on the Board of the New Jersey Nursing Home Association. They began with just 10 beds, expanding over the years, and ran one of the most highly rated nursing homes in the state for more than 35 years until they retired in 1992. ![]() As a public health nurse, Hazel saw the great need for elder care facilities, and together she and John established Merry Heart Nursing Home in Succasunna in 1956. In 1947, she met (while hitchhiking!) the love of her life, John Kadimik whom she married in 1948. Although her studies were delayed due to a bout of tuberculosis, she proudly graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1948, and went on to work in public health nursing for the American Heart Association and Metropolitan Life. Upon graduation, Hazel was accepted into the Cadet Nurse Corps program at Newark City Hospital. She and her sister were raised by her single mother in Oxford, NJ and later moved to Washington, NJ where she graduated from Washington High School in 1944. The elder daughter of Blanche Peery Ward and Richard Ward, Hazel was born on in Albany, NY. Hazel Ann Ward Kadimik died on Tuesday, Januat St. ![]()
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