On September 6, 2009 Helen C. Wenzel former Registered Nurse Administrator/Educator. She retired in 1997 from the Sheppard Pratt Health System where she had been employed for 20 years in various positions ranging from Director of Clinical Nursing to Nursing Education Specialist. Prior to that, she was the Psychiatric Coordinator for the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

A graduate of the Sinai Hospital School of Nursing, Mrs. Wenzel held a B.S. in Psychology and a Master of Liberal Arts from Johns Hopkins University, an M.S. from the University of Maryland and had numerous post-graduate credits in Administrative Science & Art History.

She was a member of various nursing organizations including the American Nurses Association and of art organizations including the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. A long-time advocate of lifelong learning, she was an active participant in the Renaissance Institute where she was a volunteer instructor of art history. In addition to her two "passions" – nursing and art – she especially enjoyed traveling, music and reading.

In 1954 she married Dr. Umberto Wenzel, psychiatrist, author and then Count of Radetzky, whose ancestor was celebrated in Johann Strauss' "Radetzky March." Dr. Wenzel died in 1961. Mrs. Wenzel is survived by a sister, Mary Wagner, a brother, John T. Lyons, a brother-in-law in Rome, Italy, numerous nieces and nephews in Italy and the U.S. and her companion Mr. Bill Fragetta of many years.



Services are private and interment is at Arlington National Cemetery.