Maureen Elisabeth Long

Maureen Long passed on July 2nd, 2023 while in the care of Memorial Hospital.

Born in New York and raised in Paramus NJ, she considered herself a Jersey girl.  Graduated  Paramus High then on to U. of Bridgeport.  She became a High School Phys. Ed instructor.  Discouraged with disinterested students, she quit and went to the Holy Name School of Nursing.

Maureen was an athlete, expert skier, semipro bowler, softball, adult volleyball, field hockey were her favorite sports.  She was a huge fan of all women’s sports.

Maureen was a musician, she played the Alto Sax in the Petaluma Adult Band and the Swing and a Miss band.  She played in concerts to benefit elderly and disabled in the area.

Married with three young children the family moved from Long Island NY to Calif., to advance her husbands’ career.  They settled in Petaluma in 1988.  After a two year sabbatical, Maureen resumed her career at Community and stayed through its change to Sutter.  She loved hospital work, the recovery room and floor nursing were her choices.  She was the Charge Nurse on a MedSurge floor until cancer forced her retirement.   Through extraordinary medical care at UCSF she had undetectable Mulitiple myloma at the time of her death.

Her husband of 42 years, the children, grandchildren, her brother, sister and their families all cry for her and surrender her to Christ.

Visitation will be Tuesday, July 11, 2023 from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm at Parent-Sorensen Mortuary and Crematory, Petaluma. The Funeral Mass will be celebrated on Wednesday July 12, 2023 at 11:00 am at St. James Catholic Church, 125 Sonoma Mountain Parkway, Petaluma. Interment, Calvary Cemetery, Petaluma.