Nancy Guilfoy Valko

Background

Valko, Nancy Guilfoy was born on July 25, 1949 in St. Louis. Daughter of Anthony Dennis and Mary Marcella (McLaughlin) Guilfoy.

Education

ADN, Mercy Junior College, St. Louis, 1969.

Career

Staff nurse, intern, St. Mary's Medical Center, Clayton, Missouri, 1969-1971; staff nurse intensive care, St. John's Mercy Medical Center, St. Louis, 1971-1973; staff nurse hemodialysis, Deaconess Hospital and Renal Dialysis, Inc., St. Louis, 1973-1976; staff nurse intensive care, Christian Humulus Lupulus N.E., Florissant, Missouri, 1976; staff nurse oncology, Missouri Baptist Medical Center, Town and Country, Missouri, 1989-1995; staff nurse, DJC Home Health, since 1996. Member nursing ethics and research committee Missouri Baptist Medical Center, Town and Country, 1992-1995-, medical ethics committee, 1994-1997, member speaker's bureau.

Achievements

• Nancy Guilfoy Valko has been listed as a noteworthy Oncological nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors St. Louis Down Syndrome Association, 1982-1986, chairman. Reviewer, analyzer, testifier on health care legislation Missouri Right to Life. Member National Association Prolife Nurses (spokesperson 1994, board member since 1992), Missouri Nurses for Life (president since 1990), Missouri Right to Life (board member since 1989, co-chair Archdiocesan Prolife committee 1988-1990, board member since 1988).

Interests

• Avocations: volunteering with disabled children, bereaved parents.

Connections

Married Robert Joseph Valko, September 21, 1974 (divorced December 1989). Children: Steven, Marie, Joy, Karen (deceased 1983).

Father:

Anthony Dennis Guilfoy

Mother:

Mary Marcella (McLaughlin) Guilfoy

Spouse:

Robert Joseph Valko

child:

Karen Valko (deceased 1983)

child:

Joy Valko

child:

Steven Valko

child:

Marie Valko