{"id":43945,"date":"2016-05-18T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=43945"},"modified":"2016-05-18T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T21:37:33","slug":"obituary-paul-r-umberger-iii-nursing-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/obituary-paul-r-umberger-iii-nursing-professor\/","title":{"rendered":"Obituary: Paul R. Umberger III, nursing professor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAU nursing professor<strong> Paul R. Umberger III<\/strong>, also known as Skip, died May 3, 2016. He was 62.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Umberger was born September 19, 1953, in Huntington, West Virginia, to Paul and Ruby Umberger. He grew up in Ohio\u00a0and\u00a0attended\u00a0Ottawa-Glandorf High School where he was a state track champion.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Umberger graduated from Miami University in 1976. He received his master&#8217;s\u00a0from the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Mass.,\u00a0in 1979, and was ordained an Episcopal priest in\u00a01980. Mr. Umberger\u00a0continued his educational journey receiving a master of divinity\u00a0from Boston University, a\u00a0bachelor&#8217;s of science in nursing\u00a0from St. Anselm College and\u00a0a\u00a0master&#8217;s of science in nursing from Boston College. He earned a\u00a0doctorate of nursing practice\u00a0from Northern Arizona University,\u00a0where he\u00a0was teaching at the time of his death. Mr. Umberger also completed his naval service by working at the Indian Health Service in Bad River, Wisc.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Umberger\u00a0was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his two daughters, Rachel and Sarah of Concord, New Hampshire; his sister, Paula Dinovo (Richard) of Delaware, Ohio; and his nephews, Matthew and Andrew.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Umberger\u00a0was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed hiking, skiing, camping as well as other pursuits. He was a member of many professional organizations and had been a part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency-Disaster Medical Assistance Team who participated in the 9-1-1 recovery as well as the Hurricane Rita disaster in Louisiana. He\u00a0also received the Innovative Teaching Award from the University of New Mexico and the Caring in Teaching Award from Northern Arizona University.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0private funeral service for Mr. Umberger will be held\u00a0at Trinity Episcopal Church in Findlay, Ohio.\u00a0In lieu of flowers, donations may\u00a0be made to the Northern Arizona University School of Nursing. Donations may be mailed to the NAU Foundation with a note that they are for Paul Umberger\u2019s memory, care of\u00a0Debera Thomas, Dean, 202 E Pine Knoll Dr. PO Box 15035, Flagstaff, AZ, 86011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/obituary-paul-r-umberger-iii-nursing-professor\/\">NAU nursing professor Paul R. Umberger III, also known as Skip, died May 3, 2016. He was 62. Mr. Umberger was born September 19, 1953, in Huntington, West Virginia, to Paul and Ruby Umberger. He grew up in Ohio\u00a0and\u00a0attended\u00a0Ottawa-Glandorf High School where he was a state track champion. Mr. Umberger graduated from Miami University in&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":43944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}