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Mary Luciel McGookey was born on April 11, 1903, in Venice, Ohio, in Erie County, Ohio to Barney and Mary Olive McGookey. Her McGookey ancestors were from Northern Ireland. An early spelling of her surname was MacGuckin. Mary Luciel had an identical twin sister named Laurene McGookey. The twins attended nursing school at Dixmont State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
From 1937 to 1942 Mary Luciel McGookey, aka Mary Luciel McGorkey, was active in labor organizations to help improve workings conditions for nurses and other hospital employees. Her first husband was Harry Liss, and her second husband was attorney William G. Mulligan. They had an adopted son and a daughter named Luciel "Sita" Mulligan, born in 1948. Mary Luciel McGookey/McGorkey Mulligan died in 1990. She was buried in the Venice Cemetery in Erie County, Ohio.
To learn much more about Mary Luciel McGookey/McGorkey Mulligan, see volume 3 of American Nursing: A Biographical Dictionary, edited by Vern L. Bullough, RN, PhD, FAAN (Springer Publishing, 2004.) This resource is found at several university libraries in the U.S., often as an online resource.
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