From the August 25, 1992 edition of The Wayne Herald
Award Honors 'guiding star'
Sister Gertrude Wolfer has been with Providence Medical Center since it opened its doors in 1975 and has become as much a part of the institution as the doctors, nurses and other staff members who care for the thousands of patients who have come in and out its doors.
She doesn't take blood pressures or assist in surgery. She doesn't deliver the babies or change the bandages. She doesn't take X-rays or assist in physical therapy.
Day after day, Sister Gertrude quietly makes her way from patient room to patient room as she attends to the spiritual needs of the men, women and children who have entered the hospital for medical attention.
It was for her years of community service that Sister Gertrude was chosen by the Wayne County Agricultural Society to receive the Kilroy Award, named after a World War II government inspector who left evidence that "Kilroy Was Here" by chalking the words on the items he had inspected.
"There are some people in Wayne County who have left indelible evidence that "They Were Here," says Leland Herman, secretary of the Agricultural Society. "One of those people is Sister Gertrude."
