Sigrid D. Wiemers, who worked as an elder care nurse on the Outer Cape since 2012, died at her home in North Truro on Sept. 23, 2024. The cause was cardiac arrest. She was 72.
The daughter of the late Junior (“Jay”) Streeter Wiemers and Priscilla (Nelson) Wiemers, Sigrid was born on Jan. 27, 1952 in Greenfield. She grew up in Bernardston and attended Pioneer Valley Regional School, graduating in 1970; she earned her BSN degree from Smith College in 1974.
Sigrid’s first job after college was at Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, where she worked in the intensive care unit and the emergency room. She decompressed from the pressures of her work during summer vacations on the Outer Cape.
After 10 years in Northampton, Sigrid moved to Branford, Conn., where she bought a house on Shore Road. She worked at Yale New Haven Hospital while studying for her master’s in nursing at Yale. She later worked at St. Raphael’s Hospital, also in New Haven.
During those years, she studied Alzheimer’s patient care at the Dorothy Alden Geriatric Assessment Center at Yale New Haven Hospital, and when she moved to a house she bought on Shore Road in North Truro in 2012 she dedicated herself to elder care nursing on the Outer Cape.
Her patients found in Sigrid a nurse who cared deeply about their suffering and worked tirelessly to comfort them. Nursing, they said, was her life and gave Sigrid great joy.
Sigrid loved the sea and cherished the life in Truro and Provincetown waters. An avid collector of oysters and clams, she shared her take with friends and neighbors, even though she didn’t particularly care for clams herself.
Living on Shore Road gave Sigrid the opportunity to watch the sea and surf each day, which sustained her energy and comforted her in her efforts to care for others.
Sigrid also loved cars — always Fords — which she was proud to drive on her rounds to patients. She was also partial to Chinese food, having traveled to China in the early 2000s and enjoyed its cuisine.
Sigrid is survived by her brother Hartland, his wife, Alberta, and their daughter, Jennifer, of West Chesterfield, N.H. and by her sister, Ingrid Skiff, of Bernardston.
She was predeceased by her brother Herman.
A graveside service is planned for the spring.
